Supreme Court of the United States

This guide to the Supreme Court of the United States begins with two white quill pens laid out for every advocate who argues a case, a ritual traced back to Chief Justice John Marshall in the early 1800s, even though nobody has dipped one in real ink for over a century. It follows lawyers like Gregory Garre and Lisa Blatt who keep their quills as mementos of the trip. You'll also hear about the handshake tradition Chief Justice Melville Fuller started among the justices in 1888, meant to keep disagreement from curdling into grudge.