They are a fleeting hint at what we have missed over the past century as well as what we lose with each passing term. They display an intimacy that is missing in the public’s access to the court, and offer us a brief connection to our Constitution in action by opening the doors of our government to more than the fortunate few who get to fill the courtroom’s 250 seats.

These images, moreover, tell us that there is much to be gleaned from even still photographs. 65,464 Us Supreme Court Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images EDITORIAL All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 65,464 us supreme court stock photos and images available, or search for supreme court or us supreme court building to find more great stock photos and pictures. Justice Scalia recently argued against cameras by suggesting that watching the Supreme Court would be boring since the justices “just sit there like nine sticks on chairs.” The lines of would-be spectators stretching outside the courtroom before every argument suggest the public feels otherwise. On the far left sits Justice Owen Roberts, the author of “the switch in time that saved nine,” who put a halt to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s court-packing plan. The justices captured here are members of the 1937 court that ended what lawyers refer to as the “Lochner Era” through a series of decisions that upheld the New Deal. The edges of the photo are framed in black, presumably from the cutouts of the purse, giving the tunneled feeling of traveling back in time-which, of course, is exactly what the photo allows us to do. supreme court buildings selfsupporting, marble elliptical spiral staircase, washington, d.c., u.s.a.

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