Long, long ago, in another life I rarely mention, I wanted to be a legal historian; to this day, I am the only person I know who had read the four volumes of the John Marshall biography and who is a fan of the 19th Century Justice Joseph Story. But you should read these memories for their telling details -the judge who stayed up late, who sat in a creased black leather chair, who didn’t mind being called a judge….

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