The next best thing to solving a problem, someone has said, is finding some humor in it. With a full plate of problems in its 2013 term, the U.S. Supreme Court still found humor in its pursuit of solutions, and sometimes at the expense of the lawyers appearing before it. Here are some lighter moments that provoked outright or nervous laughter—moments that some lawyers may prefer to forget.
Wishful Thinking No. 1
In the campaign finance challenge, McCutcheon v. FEC, Justice Elena Kagan to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr.: “And, General, I suppose that if this court is having second thoughts about its rulings that independent expenditures are not corrupting, we could change that part of the law.”
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