Law in Popular Culture
Many Details Right in Fictional Lawyer’s Supreme Court Skewering
Posted May 6, 2008, 07:50 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The U.S. Supreme Court is often the target of criticism. In one of the more recent high-profile critiques the missives were delivered by a fictional lawyer, Alan Shore of Boston Legal.
The character played by actor James Spader is arguing a case before the high court with look-alike justices when he starts his attack, Legal Times reports. Shore tells the court it is "overtly and shamelessly pro-business" and tells the objecting justices “you folks are not as hot as all get-out.”
Many aspects of the episode were improbable, the article says, but the writers got many details right, including references to little-known sculpture and customs at the court.
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