Bong Hits 4 ATL: Our SCOTUS Field Trip

We were very excited for our SCOTUS field trip this morning. We had some friends in from out of town, and the four of us headed over to One First Street, to try and watch two Supreme Court arguments: Morse v. Frederick, the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” student free speech case argued by former Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr, and Wilkie v. Robbins, the civil RICO case argued by Professor Laurence Tribe.
Unfortunately, even though we arrived at 8:00 AM — two hours before the scheduled ten o’clock argument — we didn’t make it in for the Morse case. The crowd was simply too large, the line too long. The people who did make it in had been waiting outside the Court, in freezing temperatures, since at least 5:30 AM. Some had folding chairs and blankets, suggesting they had camped out overnight.
We were admitted to watch a few minutes of Professor Tribe’s argument in the Willkie v. Robbins case. But we didn’t make in to that argument until around 11:30 AM.
So we had a lot of time to kill in the cold. Over the three and a half hours, we made a few random videos — like this one:

Outside the U.S. Supreme Court [YouTube]

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