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...gravitated to Scalia. The pair not only voted alike in 56 out of 90 decisions, but Thomas can write in language that brings to mind Scalia's occasional let's-you-and-me-scrap tone. "Jurors do not leave their knowledge of the world behind when they enter a courtroom," Thomas scolded the other Justices in one dissent. "And they do not need to have the obvious spelled out in painstaking detail...
Yahweh wasn't the only controversial figure in the courtroom; his lawyer, Alcee Hastings, was a federal judge who was impeached after questions were raised about his involvement in a bribery conspiracy, although he was acquitted of related criminal charges. Hastings, who heralded Yahweh as a persecuted "Ghandiesque" figure, is now running for Congress...
Granted, none of us were in that courtroom and in that jury. We saw the videotape--but not a frame-by-frame dissection of it. And we missed all the cross-examinations and the lawyers' arguments...
...more pressure to ensure fair trials in the first place. Perhaps the most serious restriction yet may be handed down in a Virginia case, Wright v. West. That case could permit the justices to rule, in effect, that federal appeals judges should work mostly from the assumption that the courtroom rulings of state-level trial judges are correct. The result would be to limit sharply the kind of questions the federal courts can reopen on appeal...
...hallway you can hear snippets of conversation that reveal the substance behind the smooth facade of the courtroom...