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...Banda once, in a courtroom. What...
Nicholas Y. Crowne ’08—flanked by his lawyer, David Rich, and his father—faced Judge George R. Sprague ’60 yesterday morning in a Middlesex District courtroom...
...form in front of him, just above my picture. Then I shake the hand of a judge. I walk back to my seat. I wait for the fanfare. The marshall eventually tells me I need to leave. But he says it with a wink. Outside the courtroom there's a crowd of people with pens and paper, who I think must be press wanting an interview. Actually they want me to register to vote. How would it look, after all, if the 300 millionth American - even the unacknowleged secret 300 millionth American - did not vote? Shabby...
When former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay announced in an Austin courtroom five months ago that he was moving on to a new stage in his life and then sashayed out of the courthouse with that ever-present grin, he left voters in his district in a whirl of confusion and anger. DeLay told TIME he thought he could do more for the conservative cause outside Congress, but that still left his constituents with lots of unanswered questions...
...argued the famous 1986 case Bowers v. Hardwick, urging the court to invalidate a Georgia anti-sodomy law that, Tribe said, violated his gay client’s fundamental right to private sexual association. Tribe lost, but he was redeemed 17 years later when, sitting in a packed courtroom, he heard Justice Anthony Kennedy say, “Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today...