There were any number of candidates off the Manny Ramirez situation. Just to change the subject, here are a pair of Twitter sends from Lawrence Hurley, U.S. Supreme Court reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal:

lawrencehurley Souter sits at the back of the room at Supreme Court music event. Scalia jokes about him wanting to be as close to NH as possible.

Just bumped into Justice Breyer browsing the salad bar in the court cafe

Hurley also blogs about the court at Washington Briefs.

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