And Now for Something Completely Different

Elizabeth Slattery

Former Legal Fellow and Appellate Advocacy Program Manager

Elizabeth Slattery researches and writes on the rule of law, separation of powers, civil rights, and other constitutional issues.

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Are you suffering from Kavanaugh Confirmation News Overload? Sick and tired of senatorial squabbles and the Circus Maximus atmosphere of the nation’s capital? Pooped out of petty partisan politics and fed up with news anchors telling you the sky is falling?

Then turn off the news, put your cares aside, and join us at The Heritage Foundation this Thursday, Sept. 13, for a post-partisan, light-hearted competition as Team Jefferson and Team Madison go head-to-head in the first-ever Supreme Court Trivia contest. If you’ve been told that the fate of the nation and the future of humanity depends on who sits on the Supreme Court, this event promises to be the antidote to the Kavanaugh Confirmation Circus.

Co-hosted by our friends at the National Constitution Center, you can look forward to a fierce, competitive (but civil) battle in our Allison Arena -- er, Auditorium.

The teams are formidable and include lawyers who all clerked for top appellate judges and Supreme Court justices.

Playing for Team Madison, there’s Paul Larkin, the wiliest brain on legal trivia in Heritage’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies; John Elwood, litigator and king of SCOTUSBlog’s Relist Watch; and Kevin Marshall, a partner at Jones Day and former Bush administration lawyer.

Competing on Team Jefferson, there’s Lisa Blatt, the feminist litigatrix who’s argued more SCOTUS cases than any other woman; Ian Gershengorn, head of Jenner & Block’s SCOTUS practice and former Obama administration lawyer and Acting Solicitor General; and Charles Rothfeld, the litigator who’s “twelve moves ahead of everybody else” and literally wrote the book on federal appellate practice.

Team Jefferson and Team Madison will face off in rounds of trivia about the Supreme Court’s scandals, infamous cases, and more. However, following the “Ginsburg Rule,” we “can offer no hints, no forecasts, no previews” of the particular questions that will be asked of the teams.

While there will be no Spartacuses in this event, at the end of an hour, one team will be named the 2018 Supreme Trivia Champions. Will it be Team Madison or Team Jefferson?

Join us at Heritage or watch online Thursday at 5:00 p.m., and tweet your support (#SupremeTrivia) for Team Madison or Team Jefferson.