I Want to Go to the Supreme Court Monday (11 Dec 2000)...

Factual Questions
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I want to go to the Supreme Court Monday! If you haven’t heard, they are going to hear the case of George W. Bush vs. the recount on Monday at 9am sharp. What time do I need to be in line so I can get the all day ticket instead of the 180-second ticket? I want this to be within reason, (If I have to be in line before 6am that day, forget it!)

I missed the first proceeding so I don’t know how early they arrived for their time to ‘witness history’ or disaster in the making.

This has gotten so surreal, I have to see it to believe it. Since they won’t televise the proceedings or whatever (just releasing audio tapes for later) I want to see what is going on inside of there.

SterlingNorth
[sub]in Washington DC[/sub]

2

Wow, this was really meant for General Questions. Or at least somewhere a good number of people will see this. But not Great Debates, I don’t want this anywhere near Great Debates.

3

Umm, last time, folks waited out overnight. So, try tomorrow afternoon.

The Skins play at 4, so I’d suggest getting online before 7, when the game ends.

Let us know if you get in!

4

Moving this as requested to General Questions.

5

For the first Supreme Court hearing on December 1st (a Friday), the first person in line set up camp at 4 a.m. Thursday morning. So: if it’s going down the same way, you should get there early Sunday morning.

Also (just in case you were planning on not staying the whole time or having someone else stand in line for you), last time the people in line had a system set up whereby they did a roll call every hour. But on the bright side, a church brought by free cider for everyone in line (and they even added a shot of corn-squeezins’ if you wanted!)

FYI: The first 50 people get to see the whole proceeding. The next however many are shuffled in to watch a 3 minute piece of the action. Enjoy!

6

So basically, the only way to get in for the full thing is to get in line NOW! They should give out wristbands… I wonder if there are scalpers?

7

nope: no scalpers, no wristbands. Tickets are, as they say, non-transferable. Just you waiting in line on the freezing cold concrete.

There was a story on the DC news about how concierges from ritzy hotels in the city, who can usually secure access to the hardest tickets in town, were left empty-handed. For once, we hoi-polloi are on the same level as Senators and so on (except for members of the Judiciary Committee, who I understand will have access).

What are you doing still reading this? Get down there, pronto!