WASHINGTON AP – The nine justices in black robes file into the Supreme Court consumed with thoughts about the great legal issues of the day. Only one of them is likely to ask questions involving raccoons, an unruly son, pet oysters or even the dreaded “tomato children.”
When Justice Stephen Breyer leans toward his microphone at the end of the bench, lawyers can expect to be asked almost anything. The 69-year-old Breyer is the court’s most frequent practitioner of the hypothetical question, a conjurer of images that are unusual and occasionally bizarre.
