{"id":163428,"date":"2026-09-23T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/23\/over-150-supreme-court-arguments-a-senate-seat-and-a-jury-of-the-damned\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:15:16","slug":"over-150-supreme-court-arguments-a-senate-seat-and-a-jury-of-the-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/23\/over-150-supreme-court-arguments-a-senate-seat-and-a-jury-of-the-damned\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 150 Supreme Court Arguments, A Senate Seat, And A Jury Of The Damned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which lawyer argued well over 150 cases before the Supreme Court and shaped the foundations of American constitutional law right from the lectern while simultaneously serving in Congress? A later chief justice called him perhaps the greatest advocate in the Court\u2019s history. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: A 1936 short story later pitted him against Satan in a jury trial for a New Hampshire farmer\u2019s soul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/over-150-supreme-court-arguments-a-senate-seat-and-a-jury-of-the-damned\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Over 150 Supreme Court Arguments, A Senate Seat, And A Jury Of The Damned<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1333791645-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which lawyer argued well over 150 cases before the Supreme Court and shaped the foundations of American constitutional law right from the lectern while simultaneously serving in Congress? A later chief justice called him perhaps the greatest advocate in the Court\u2019s history. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: A 1936 short story later pitted him against Satan in a jury trial for a New Hampshire farmer\u2019s soul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/over-150-supreme-court-arguments-a-senate-seat-and-a-jury-of-the-damned\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/over-150-supreme-court-arguments-a-senate-seat-and-a-jury-of-the-damned\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which lawyer argued well over 150 cases before the Supreme Court and shaped the foundations of American constitutional law right from the lectern while simultaneously serving in Congress? A later chief justice called him perhaps the greatest advocate in the Court\u2019s history. Hint: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}