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This Lieutenant White came and showed a piece of paper.

And Mrs. Maff demanded to see the paper and to read it to you what it was.

The first plaintiff was Jane Rowe, an unmarried pregnant girl who had sought an abortion in the state of Texas.

You can't order you to salute the flag. We can't order you to do all these obeisances as opposed to the flag.

Can we order you not to do something to show something about the flag?

I see that my white light is on, so if there are no further questions I would say my for the time for rebuttal.

Thank you, Miss Villain, you're having a further time.

We'll hear enough from you and Mr. Rowe.

Do you remember this moment?

Yeah. Mr. Chief Justice and Mayor, please the court.

I'd like to begin my remarks by addressing the questions regarding deception.

Oh yeah, so is that, that's actually from must be from Colorado against spring.

Yeah, you know, I didn't realize that that one was recorded. I don't know that I've ever heard it.

This is Larry Robbins. He runs a private law practice now, but for years he worked in the office of the Solicitor General.

That's the office responsible for arguing on behalf of the United States in the Supreme Court.

I called him up because I wanted to know what it's like to stand there alone under the eyes of Rynquist, O'Connor, Ginsburg, Marshall.

What's remarkable, or it was to me anyway, the first time I stood up at the lectern, is how close to you the justices are.

I always, I guess I always analogize it to sitting in a living room with nine very smart people who have thought about the same problem that you have,

and want to ask you some questions about it, and your job is to answer them.

That's how it felt to me, and I've done it 18 times, and it always feels like that.

It's the judicial branch today on Civics 101. I'm Nick Kappa-D.J.

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