The Courtroom is a battlefield, and oral argument requires a fair amount of verbal jousting and sparring with the Justices.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.