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Law Twitter Renames The Supreme Court Building... Kinda

There were a couple of Koch suggestions, but Coca-Cola would have worked just as well.

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On this week’s episode of Thinking Like A Lawyer, Patrice and I ended joking about the suggestion that naming the Supreme Court building after Justice John Marshall Harlan would help Americans move through its general distrust in one of its longest standing institutions. We riffed on what it would look like if the Supreme Court was named after an explicit corporate sponsor and had too much fun to confine it to the podcast. I then did the only reasonable thing to do in such a situation. I moved to the Twitter to invite some of our readers to the fun!

Some people didn’t understand the assignment:

https://twitter.com/bill_of_lefts/status/1453098066131787784

Others CALI’d the damn thing:

Others went full snark:

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…and some made comments that got more likes than the original post. I’m not bitter or anything:

And, as no list is complete without an honorable mention — some ignored the question completely and went for syntax.

Either way, I hope that this bit of speculative research gives Sarah Isgur’s suggestion some extra exposure.

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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