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Ultimately, I argued four of the cases, my co-counsel argued the other. But I would still have to prepare for the argument because I would still be at the counsel table.

"I've signed many of them over the years," retired U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said of amicus briefs from former jurists. "But nothing like now. Now, it's like every other week somebody is ...