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Justice Stevens's Black Leather Arm Chair, Kathryn A. Watts
Justice Stevens's Black Leather Arm Chair, Kathryn A. Watts
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As a law clerk to Justice Stevens in the October Term 2002, I felt that the very best part of the job came almost every afternoon. Without any advance warning, the Justice would get up from his desk and walk through chambers to the law clerks’ main office and plop down into a well-worn black leather arm chair that formed part of a cozy seating area flanked by tall bookshelves filled with volumes of case reporters and the United States Code.
As soon as the Justice started settling himself into his arm chair, my co-clerks and I all knew …