The Supreme Court ruled in the affirmative earlier this year, after decades of legal jousting on the question.

I put it out there … To the Universe … The legal jousting can sometimes look like public entertainment.

Critics complain that high-level legal jousting has become a sport in Washington, where partisan warriors look for any way to attack their foes.

Critics complain that high-level legal jousting has become a sport in Washington, D.C., where partisan warriors look for any way to attack their foes.