Posted by Orin Kerr:
Twelfth Night Mock Trial:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_04_05-2009_04_11.shtml#1239127175
Tony Mauro has[1] a very entertaining write-up of a "mock trial" at
the Shakespeare Theatre featuring three Supreme Court justices
(Ginsburg, Breyer, and Alito) and five other federal judges, sitting
as the "Supreme Court of Illyria," hearing argument in the
hypothetical case of "Malvolio's Revenge" from Shakespeare's Twelfth
Night. There's lots of good stuff in Mauro's write-up. Perhaps the
best line was Alito's, from the Justices' explanations of their votes
after the argument ended:
When it was Breyer's turn to explain his vote for Olivia, he said
flatly that he had voted that way because "I don't like Malvolio."
Which gave Alito an opening for the last laugh. "I always wondered
what 'Active Liberty' meant," Alito said wryly, a mild jab at
Breyer's 2005 book by that name.
References
1.
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/04/in-twelfth-night-mock-trial-malvolio-loses.html
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