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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
Next time, when I’m second under the new format, I will start the morning with more coffee and a bigger breakfast. I might try to hide a banana in the court locker.
— Daniel Geyser, chair of the Supreme Court practice at Haynes and Boone, in comments given to Bloomberg Law on the high court’s new argument format, where the first case argued tends to run much longer in time than the second. “You have to feel bad for the advocates who come last and who have to face justices who are tired and have flagging attention spans,” UCLA Law professor Adam Winkler, a SCOTUS scholar, said of the format.
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