U.S.: Lawyers, uninterrupted, adjust to Supreme Court two-minute rule Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Bloomberg News

"I got five words out before Justice Scalia interrupted me."

That’s how Erwin Chemerinsky, now the dean of Berkeley Law School, recalls his first U.S. Supreme Court argument back in 2002. He was referring, of course, to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the larger-than-life jurist known for putting advocates through the wringer at oral arguments over his three-decade high court tenure.

Scalia’s aggressive approach, aided by increasingly inquisitive colleagues, gave rise to a notoriously "hot bench" that asked so many questions, it sometimes left lawyers little room to get words in edgewise.

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