“We the People”

Lawyers Seek to Persuade the Justices Oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court is the most important, fascinating and visible part of the Justices’ public work on the High Bench. It represents a forum for lawyers to persuade the Court to embrace their perspective on a case and a canvass for a legal artist to produce a memorable masterpiece. In his argument to the Court in 1818, i...