To my judges next year.

After my first time trotting out the Fifteenth Amendment, I seriously considered going and printing it and the case history (and KeyCite and Shepard's output) to take to the next argument.

As it turned out, it wouldn't have mattered. The semifinal judges weren't the least bit interested in arguments about the legal issues, Fifteenth Amendment or otherwise. They were much more obsessed by how they should properly weigh the statistics that my client had brought forth at the trial level.

Unfortunately, they seem to have had the mistaken impression that they were deciding the issue, forgetting the the Supreme Court wasn't going to be a decider of fact. Unfortunately, they took my redirections and insistence at sticking to the problem at hand as a refusal to answer their moronic, way off-topic questions. It was making me furious, especially after they hauled me back in for the critique only to tell me I hadn't answered their questions. I most certainly had, just not in a way they understood, because they clearly didn't understand their roles.

So, maybe sets of those cards for them.