Poll: Shakespeare Mock Trial

[neadods]

I haven't heard a peep about the waitlist for the Shakespeare mock trial, and the dinner-and-trial version is so extremely expensive that I can't bring myself to sign up for it. (Especially if I pay $350 and then end up at a dinner table with a member of SCOTUS that I can't stand.)

On the other hand, I do have that work bonus and my state taxes back, and I wanted to see it so much...


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[themis1.livejournal.com]

It would appear you have many friends who believe in fate!!

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

I hear they frown heavily on murder in those parts, so I wouldn't go to the dinner.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I'd be more likely to spit in an eye than kill.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Oof, tough choice! Which Supremes are judging? I admit, the risk of ending up at a table with Scalia for dinner and having to be polite would turn me right off...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ginsburg, Alito, and Kagan.

I could, of course, pay for the dinner and skip it, but that seems really extreme.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Hmm, decent odds there. Hmm, might be worth it! It's one of those look into your soul and decide sort of things. I'd probably spend it if I really wanted to go.

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

That's a big chunk of change, but a bonus is sort of like found money....

I'm assuming Alito's the only possible problem. I'd find it hard to stomach Scalia or Thomas, but least I think you could have a conversation at the table with him. And you'd have twice as much chance of getting either Ginsburg or Kagan.

What are the odds of getting none of the above? Are there only three tables?

And who gets the money? Is it a cause or institution you like?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

The money presumably goes straight into the coffers of the DC Shakes, which isn't particularly charitable but does do work that I support.

And yeah, Alito's the problem. He's a ham onstage; if I didn't know about his voting on the court, I'd like him.

As it is, the urge to spit like a velociraptor would be rising. Unless I sublimated it into pitching "Obamacare" and how much I enjoyed having my own health care.

And yeah - I have no idea who I'd be with. There are all the other lawyers and judges.

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

Pitching the health care bill wouldn't be a bad idea. I don't know how many "normal" people he talks to in the course of a month. Even better if you can cite good reasons for a conservative to support it, as many did before Obama backed it and they all ran the other way.

[signeh.livejournal.com]

As much as I disagree with the majority of the SCOTUS, none of them are boring. (I want to take Ginsburg out to dinner and just let her talk, so that's where I coming from; I kinda fangirl her.) I say go, as it's a an amazing chance.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ginsburg was fascinating in the only other mock trial I saw. She looked so frail that I was afraid she'd never make it to her seat, but once in it, she could show Thatcher several things about being an iron lady. She didn't like the arguments made by either side, so after she ruled on the arguments made, she schooled 'em both like 10-year-olds on the angle she thought they should have taken.

I don't know enough about law to know all the nuances, but it was a riveting display of personality.

[fyrdrakken]

A) The work bonus is found money and B) if you pin all your hopes on the waiting list there's a definite chance you won't get to go at all. If you want it that badly and you do have the money, then go. (Especially since you have a two-thirds chance of sitting with a justice you do like, evidently.)