i am not giving away anything, because she justice rehnquist wrote a book about the court in which the knowledge that congress is probably a misnomer. it is really not an occasion on which we tried to persuade one another. very few minds are changed at conference. each justice states his or her view of the case and how he or she boats. -- how he/she votes. if in the middle of a presentation you disagree with something they say, the chief justice would say you can have your turn at speaking. at the end, you can speak as second time and raise some of these questions, but it is not really an exercise in persuading each other.