But I'm still in a jam. Plaintiffs really want to exit together as a group. So I talk to a guard again. She says, go to the chief's office.
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I get pointed in a dozen different directions, all over the building. Eventually find the chief's office. Meanwhile, clock is ticking.
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The chief of the SCOTUS police, who just had to deal with an insane protester, is decompressing in his office with a bowl of ice cream.
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And in walks this dummy with a request. It's me. I tell him the plaintiffs want to walk out together, how important it is to them today.
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He says (with a mouth full of ice cream) no way. Not today. Today is nuts. I said yes sir I know, but please, this is once in a lifetime.
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I'm begging but in a very serious, professional appellate attorney way. He eventually relents, but says - when I say move, you move.
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We have just a few minutes left before the args are over. We rush back to the cafeteria, round up the plaintiffs, head toward the stairs.
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Then, at the last possible moment, the chief himself waives us up and we join the crowd as they exit the building. Seconds to spare.
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Everybody comes out the front doors together, down the stairs to cheers and celebration from the huge crowd on the street.
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That remains to this day my proudest moment in any oral argument. I convinced the chief of SCOTUS police to go out of his way for my clients
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not an easy task. I think he's since retired
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