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[Associate Justice Joseph] Story loved John Marshall. “I love his laugh,” he wrote after hearing him for the first time as a Yazoo lobbyist; “I am in love with his character, positively in love,” he wrote at the end of Marshall’s life…. Marshall appreciated having such a disciple. They functioned as a team—on the bench, as a legal team; off it, sometimes as a comic team. It was an established custom of the Court that the justices could have wine at their boardinghouse dinners only if it were raining (evidently to cheer themselves up). Marshall would ask “Brother Story” to look out the window and say what the weather was. If Story reported that the sun was shining, Marshall would answer, “our jurisdiction extends over so large a territory…that it must be raining somewhere.”
On November 12 , 2018, Richard Brookhiser delivered the banner lecture, John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. Watch it here.
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