Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight Page #4

Byron?

I agree

with the Chief.

This case is

a waste of our time.

I don't even know why

we're discussing it.

Denied.

Hugo?

I was against

World War II

until Pearl Harbor,

against the Korean

War start to finish,

and against the Vietnam

war from the start.

A waste.

A mistake.

We're paying a high

price for that.

Hugo, what is your vote?

We should hear the case,

goddamn it.

Didn't you hear

what I just said?

That's 3.

Potter?

I think Ali should

get his day in court.

I vote to grant.

And 4. Ha! No one wants

to hear the case, huh?

You got that one

wrong, Chief.

Well, all this

wouldn't have happened

if the petitioner

had not been Muhammad Ali.

That's right. We are hearing the case

because the petitioner is Muhammad Ali.

4-4.

What'd he say?

All right, gentlemen,

you've got your 4 votes.

The case

will be heard.

But it takes 5

to overturn.

Yeah, where's that

fifth vote coming from?

Justice, Sir.

Good afternoon, sir.

Sir? What was

the vote on Ali?

We're going to hear

the case,

Lord only knows why.

Bill Brennan's doing. He politics

his way around everything.

On Phillips vs. Marietta,

I want you

to draft an opinion

that under

the Civil Rights Act,

an employer may not, in the

absence of business necessity,

refuse to hire a woman with

children of pre-school age.

Sir, that's not what you

told us before conference.

You said the employer

was within his rights

not to hire the woman.

You said

you were upholding.

That was

a tentative vote.

Petrus, did you get hold

of the court plans?

They're on your desk, sir. Thank you.

He just changed his

vote, just like that?

There's no mileage in

voting with the minority.

If he votes with

the majority, he gets

to assign the opinion,

or write it himself.

Complaining about

Bill Brennan.

He's got a nerve.

Chief is always

pulling the strings.

Do not

underestimate him.

Hold all my calls, please.

It's Friday night.

Why aren't you at

home with your wife?

Oh, she's used

to it, sir.

I just need to catch

up a little bit.

No, no.

This is important.

You must take every

moment you can.

Pack up. I'll give you a ride home.

Sir, would you

like me to drive?

New lenses. It takes a while to adjust.

You and Donna free

on Sunday for lunch?

Sir, please

let me drive.

12:
30 or 1 suit you?

That sounds nice.

Thank you. Uhh.

This is nice.

Hello.

Good afternoon.

How are you

settling in?

Fine, sir,

thank you.

I'm enjoying DC.

I have a dog.

He's good company.

Ha ha!

We're going

on lots of walks.

Oh, I know the hours

are long. It's hard.

Here you go, ma'am.

Oh, why,

thank you, dear.

How long have you

been married, sir?

Hmm? 43 years.

Wow.

When I first met Ethel, she

was married to somebody else.

But I stole her

away from him.

Am I right, dear?

We planned to have

the wedding at

Ethel's aunt's house

in Waterbury.

It was Hartford, John.

Hartford. You're

absolutely right, my love.

But on the day,

the aunt fell ill,

so we had to switch

the ceremony

to the First

Congregational Church

in... where was it?

Farmington. Right.

That's right.

Well, at the last minute,

I suddenly realized

that the marriage

license was invalid

outside the Hartford

city limits.

So, we met in Hartford

for an early-morning

wedding

and returned to Farmington

for an early

afternoon wedding.

Well, as ever, sir,

another testament

to your devotion

to both the spirit

and the letter

of the law.

Happiest day

of my life.

I... perhaps

I should get ready.

We have guests for

cocktails, don't we?

No, no, not today.

Not today.

Oh.

Silly me.

Silly you.

Kevin, after lunch,

I'd like to take

a quick look

at Coolidge

v. New Hampshire,

if you wouldn't mind.

Of course.

Won't keep him long. Promise.

Sir? Sir, are you

all right?

Sir. Give me a minute, please.

Ah, yeah, that's better.

Ahh.

Um, would you like me

to read for you, sir?

Yes, yes, that-that would

be helpful, Kevin. Thank you.

Um... "In the wake of a

particularly brutal murder

of a 14-year-"

Sir, would you like

me to call somebody?

No, no, no, no.

Please continue.

"In the wake of a

particularly brutal murder

"of a 14-year-old

girl,

"the New Hampshire

attorney general

"took charge of

police activities

"relating to

the murder.

"The suspect,

Edward Coolidge,

"is claiming that

the searches

"of his home

and automobile

violated his Fourth

Amendment rights. "

I haven't burned

my own draft record.

But what I'm doing is legal.

This is why I believe

I'll receive

justice in the higher courts.

You can deny the draft

on any grounds

but you'll have to go to court-

it's law.

If you lose, you go to jail,

which I said I'd do.

My fight is legal.

But if you notice, I'm being

the most persecuted.

I'm not allowed

to work in America.

I'm not allowed

to leave America.

Home of the brave,

land of the free.

I'm not allowed to,

not even allowed

to leave where I can work,

countries that will accept me.

And now I'm due

$10,000 fine in 5 years.

All this brings on

racial trouble.

People see this, they see

other athletes and entertainers

getting by on little excuses,

and I know I'm sincere.

But now I get a heavy penalty

to the white preachers

that break in the government

house, burn up the draft card,

hang statutes of the President,

lay on the Pentagon steps,

leave America white citizens.

But I'm the bad one now,

the poor slave.

Now I'm the bad one.

All rise.

The honorable,

the Chief Justice,

and the Associate Justices

of the Supreme Court

of the United States.

Oyez, oyez, oyez.

All persons having business

before the Honorable, the Supreme

Court of the United States,

are admonished to draw near

and give their attention

for the Court is now sitting.

God save the United States

and the Honorable Court.

Docket number 2-9-9,

Cohen versus California.

Mr. Nimmer, you may proceed

whenever you are ready.

The Court is

thoroughly aware

of the facts

of this case.

It will not be necessary

to dwell on them.

At Mr. Chief Justice's

suggestion,

I certainly will

keep very brief

the statement of facts.

What this young man did

was to walk through

a courthouse corridor

wearing a jacket

inscribed with

the words-

Mr. Nimmer, we agreed, it is

not necessary "F*** the Draft. "

to dwell on the facts.

I suggest we avoid

using that word

for the rest of

oral argument,

and we simply refer

to it as... "that word. "

Yes, your honor. The Court

should rule on the war.

We are arguing that

the State may not,

consistent with the First

and Fourteenth Amendments,

make the simple

public display...

Every day

in Vietnam,

young American men

are killed

because this country

refuses to admit

that we've

made a mistake.

Let's go.

Who wants to be

the last person

to die for a mistake?

That's enough.

This Court should rule

on the war!

This Court

should rule...

Well, people bring

passion to politics,

and vulgarity is

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