this is a case where tommy goldstein and carter phillips argued about whether don quixote needs to be committed before ginsburg breyer, the d.c. circuit, and you know, they are cheap laughs. they raise money for the shakespeare theatre. i don't know what the hell i was doing there. [laughter] >> but you did a good job eric. >> joan, also mentioned you were a finalist for the pulitzer prize this year. sorry you didn't get it. [applause] it was for a series called the echo chamber, and why don't you tell us what that was about? >> it was about the lawyers who appear before the court. we've mentioned a couple of names repeatedly today including paul clement and carter phelps and tommy goldstein to adam just referred you. i think all of us many of you and us have noticed we had someone repeat players over the years coming up before the justices and also having success with their petitions. what we decide to do was to actually try to measure this. our data team went back through 17,000 petitions and isolated on 66 lawyers who had a remarkable success rate. going back over a decade we found

joan: we mentioned a couple names repeatedly today including paul clement and carter phillips and tom goldstein, who added just referred to. i think all of us, many of you and us, have noticed that we have had so many repeat players over the years coming up before the justices and having success with their decisions, we decided to do was actually try to measure this. our data team went back to 17,000 petitions and isolated on 66 lawyers who had a remarkable success rate. going back over one decade, we found that fewer than 1% of these lawyers had 43% of the cases it for the justices, and that 50 want of these 66 lawyers had deep, corporate ties. we were looking at who these people are, why they are so successful before the justices, and that raised the question of whether the justices have added a new criterion to their decisions on which cases to take and whether they goes to the merits of the lawyers arguing not just the merits of the case, so we were able to do a lot of data work. then i went and interviewed the justices about this saying, are you leaning toward repeat players beca

this was a case where tom goldstein and carter phillips argued about whether he needs to be committed before ginsberg breyer of the d.c. circuit. and you know, they're cheap laughs. they raise money for the sharke spear theater. i don't know what the hell i was doing there. >> but you did a good job. >> joan, i also mentioned introducing you that you were a finalist for the pulitzer prize this year. sorry you didn't get it. it was for a series called the echo chamber. why don't you tell us what that was about. >> well, it was about the lawyers who appear before the court. we've mngsed a couple names repeatedly today including paul and others. i think all of us, many of you and us noteded that we've had so many repeat players coming up before the justices and having success with their petitions for sert what we decided to do was to actually try to measure this. our data team went back through 17,000 petitions and isolated on 66 lawyers who had a remarkable success rate. going back over a decade we found that fewer than 1% of these lawyers had 43% of the cases before the justices. and t

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