Was there a lot of back and forth for Roe v. Wade?
Yes. A lot of discussion about how to deal with it as an issue. And, of course, it was reargued. It went over two terms. Some of that is already known from the Marshall papers and the Powell papers, but some is not. Have you ever had this kind of exclusive access before? No. Only two other justices’ papers have become public in a sort of contemporaneous fashion that I’m aware of. One was Justice [Thurgood] Marshall’s papers, about which there was a lot of controversy. His family claimed that he hadn’t intended them to become public. Justice [Lewis] Powell’s papers are also public, but they’re in Lexington, Va., which makes it tougher to access for people who cover the court here in Washington. What can we expect to hear in your reports? The pieces on the first day will have “the news,” what I’ve found that’s newsworthy, and an idea of some of the other things that we’ll cover. Then I’m going to do a piece about the abortion cases, and one about the business of writing opinions, because
