SCOTUSblog on camera: Burt Neuborne part six

Reflecting on a long career of arguing before the Supreme Court: John Marshall Harlan II, at the endof his career; Thurgood Marshall, William O. Douglas and the constitutionality of the Vietnam War;losing Byron R. White, and so the case, at oral argument; blessing Stephen G. Breyers desire to callout a First Amendment case for what it was; the anxieties of oral argument; and the eagerness to getback to the Courts on deck circle as soon as possible.

In this six-part series, Burt Neuborne describes the Supreme Court as a necessarily political institution, explains how the Constitution and the Courts position in our democracy affects our understanding of what the Court and its Justices can and should do, and tells stories of arguing before the Court and individual Justices. Mr. Neuborne is the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties and founding Legal Director of theBrennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School. His long career in academe and civilrights advocacy includes teaching and writing about constitutional law and procedure, numerousoral arguments before and briefs submitted to the Supreme Court, and serving as a principal counselin lawsuits seeking to recover property unjustly taken from Holocaust victims by Swiss banks andGerman corporations during the Nazi era.