Once a year, the normally staid government office of audiovisual staffers, building architects, budget crunchers and court reporters is engulfed in fake blood, animatronic figures and strobe lights. What started as a workplace teambuilding exercise has turned into a cut-throat competition, presided over by district, magistrate and appellate judges from the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
NLJ has Many Americans Don't Trust the Supreme Court This Election; David Boies Isn't One of Them
With the creeping tide of election cases now hitting the court's emergency docket, just 20% of Americans are confident in the court's ability to be "neutral" in a ruling on the 2024 election, according to the Pew Research Center.