![]() ![]() And when that didn't work, she assembled Justice Brinnin's children in a conference call intervention. Justice Plympton dealt with the situation with her usual grace and gentle persuasiveness. "You've got to do something," he pleaded, "before he shows up dressed like the Tin Man, singing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow.' " So the CJ turned to the den-motherly Justice Paige Plympton. None of the other justices, who were, at any rate, hardly speaking to one another, wanted to intervene. ![]() He was not by nature a confrontational man and so was at pains what to do. was whispering in his ears trying to influence his vote that he reached for the aluminum foil.Ĭhief Justice Declan Hardwether, who was himself going through a rough patch at the time, found the situation embarrassing. (Justice Brinnin had grown up there.) It was when Justice Brinnin became convinced that the ghost of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. On another occasion, also at three a.m., he met them at the front door holding a bag of kitchen garbage and instructed them that they must get it to Omaha-without delay. He had taken to summoning his clerks in the middle of the night to tell them that there were moray eels in the toilet. His mind, once capable of quoting entire opinions as far back as the nineteenth century, in toto and verbatim, was now succumbing to medication (for persistent sciatica) and increasingly copious evening martinis. But the sun had now (emphatically) set on that day. Thank God, his fellow justices agreed-unanimously, for once-cameras weren't allowed in the Court.īrinnin was a distinguished jurist who had cast some of the most consequential votes of his day. Mortimer Brinnin's deteriorating mental condition had been the subject of talk for some months now, but when he showed up for oral argument with his ears wrapped in aluminum foil, the consensus was that the time had finally come for him to retire. Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter ![]() Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital Visit our Web site at First eBook Edition: September 2008 Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.Ĭopyright © 2008 by Christopher Taylor BuckleyĪll rights reserved. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Supreme Courtship is another classic Christopher Buckley comedy about the Washington institutions most deserving of ridicule. Soon, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a constitutional crisis, a presidential reelection campaign that the president is determined to lose, and oral arguments of a romantic nature. Will Pepper, a straight-talking Texan, survive a confirmation battle in the Senate? Will becoming one of the most powerful women in the world ruin her love life? And even if she can make it to the Supreme Court, how will she get along with her eight highly skeptical colleagues, including a floundering Chief Justice who, after legalizing gay marriage, learns that his wife has left him for another woman. After one nominee is rejected for insufficiently appreciating To Kill A Mockingbird, the president chooses someone so beloved by voters that the Senate won’t have the guts to reject her - Judge Pepper Cartwright, the star of the nation’s most popular reality show, Courtroom Six. President of the United States Donald Vanderdamp is having a hell of a time getting his nominees appointed to the Supreme Court. ![]()
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