I'm Elizabeth Lattery and I'm Tiffany Bates.

And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court,

what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

This week we're talking about SCOTUS Advocates pre-argument rituals, sports, betting, and

wedding cakes, and we'll interview one of the lawyers and masterpiece cake shop

Jordan Lawrence. Well, I just want to say welcome back, Tiffany. We're glad you survived your final

exams and I think you're seven-eighths of the way through law school. Yes, indeed. Thank you.

Certainly missed you last week. I think JM did a great job filling in, but he's no Tiffany.

Thank you. Thank you.

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So if there are any cases you'd like to nominate, please send them to us with a brief description of why the opinion deserves recognition as the best or worst of 2017.

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So before we dig into the orders list and the two significant oral arguments this week, I read a cute article Tony Morrow had this week reporting on a recent panel discussion at Harvard about how to prepare for and survive oral argument at the Supreme Court.

So some of the panelists talked about their pre-argument rituals.

Most of the advice was very practical and boring.

Do moot courts, talk a lot, write out all the questions you think you might get and the answers you could give.

But there were a few interesting things.

Elizabeth Preligar, who is an assistant to the SG, she talked about how she always has

salmon for dinner the night before her arguments.

And this is because it's a superfood, so it's good for your brain.

And then the

morning of, she said, I eat bananas, a lot of bananas, like two, three, maybe even four bananas.

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