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At The Supreme Court, All Bets Are Off

Some offices bet on March Madness; Supreme Court justices bet on....

I said, ‘Chief, I don’t think you should do that’ — stuffy me. He said, ‘no, no, no.’ Then the case came in and everybody had to give their money back!

— Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, describing his reaction to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s setting up a betting pool on the 2000 presidential election — a pool that had to be disbanded after Bush v. Gore showed up at the Supreme Court.