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I didn’t know what to write about today, so I figured I find some fun trivia.
As everyone knows from my July posts, I don’t take trivia lists at face value because many contain mistakes. So when an item caught my eye, I did some research. It turns out it’s true, and I’m glad because it’s just the sort of crazy fact we need in this crazy time.
The highest court in the land, The Supreme Court, is on the United States Supreme Court Building’s fourth floor. An even higher court, a basketball court, is on the fifth floor of the same building.
Yep. There is a basketball court in the Supreme Court Building. This spare room was converted into a workout area in the 1940s for the employees who work in the building. Later on, a small basketball court as added.
This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard. Since it is on top of the Supreme Court, I wondered if the justices could hear a game being played. The answer to that is yes, and that is why it’s forbidden to use the higher court when high court is in session.
A few justices like Byron White (who served from 1962-1993) and Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist (who served from 1972-2005) have used the basketball court. Other justices have used the adjacent weight room.
If supreme court justices created a basketball team, they could be the Washington D.C. Robes. Yeah? Yeah?