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Jun 25, 2022, 05:39 PM
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Member Since: Jun 2015
Location: Tartarus
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Originally Posted by stopdog
When I clerked for a federal judge for a couple of years post law school I used to do my first drafts in the style of various authors just to have fun. They would get fixed for the final -but getting a good Faulkner parody or Raymond Chandler was a way that me and my fellow clerks amused ourselves for the first draft.
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So your version of Brown v. Board of Education would be something like:
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It was about ten o’clock in the morning, mid May, with the summer humidity already here and a blinding glare reflecting off the white marble everywhere. We were wearing our black robes, never mind what we had on underneath. We were white, old, and Ivy League, and we didn’t care who knew it. We were everything Supreme Court Justices ought to be.
A knock on the door interrupted our reverie. It was a dame. Young, cute, definitely underage. She looked at us and whispered,
“I want to go to school.”
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