AMERICAN LAWYER MEDIA
The U.S. Supreme Court debuts this week as a vehicle for television drama, and it is more likely to have Washington’s legal elite shouting “oy, vey” than “oyez.”The show, “First Monday,” airs, awkwardly enough, on Jan. 15. The second episode is set to broadcast three days later, in the time slot CBS has given it through the spring. Complete with James Garner as a chief justice who smokes (like the real one), Joe Mantegna as an Italian-American associate justice who attends mass (like the real one), and a court with two women and an African-American (like the real one), the show, if it succeeds, probably will impart more information about the nation’s highest court to the general public than a decade’s worth of routine activity by the real court.
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