“May It Please All of You C—suckers”
The Supreme Court seems to abandon judicial dignity for the sake of efficiency.
Perhaps because I wasn’t so good at trial, I did a fair amount of appellate work during my career. Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth, Superior and Supreme Courts are places where attorneys argue before panels of judges about the wisdom of trial court rulings. Rarely do litigants attend and there is no testimony. When your case is called for argument, you seek the attention of the judges to begin with the words “May it please the Court.” You …