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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Don't stand so close to us

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Get tested. Wear a mask. Don’t get too close. Not your typical court orders, but that was the word from the Supreme Court to lawyers and reporters who returned to the high court this week for the first in-person arguments in more than a year and a half.

to social distancing measures in the courtroom, although only Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who has diabetes, wore a mask among the fully vaccinated justices.The lectern that lawyers have said is close enough to the justices to see the whites of their eyes has been pushed back a few feet. Lawyer David Frederick said the change made it easier to see the whole bench without having to turn his head, but detracted from “the intimacy of having a conversation with the justices.

Fisher was arguing that New York violated his client’s right to cross-examine a witness for the prosecution. But for the opening week of the term, Thomas got the first crack at the lawyers in each of the court’s five cases. It appeared the other justices, who generally are not shy about jumping in, have agreed to let the court’s longest-serving member go first.

 

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So, SCOTUS issued workplace Covid-19 safety protocol mandates.

Stay home. Stay safe.

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I guess not QUITE as loyal to the Republicans as we were led to believe..

But partisan hard, while denying it? How's justice rapey beer doin?

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