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Lawyers: Westlaw is down!!
Brett Kavanaugh: What's Westlaw?
Noel Francisco: Something that has no bearing on our work, Mr. Justice sir.
Gorsuch clerks: Westlaw is down, sir.
Neil Gorsuch: This is why I tell you kids to keep a hard copy of the Hammurabi Code and Lex Julia.
Kagan clerks: Westlaw is down.
Kagan: Did they close the library?
Clerks: No.
Kagan: Then why the hell are you still standing there?
Clerks: Oh, yeah, uhh...
Kagan: Wear a mask.
Sonia Sotomayor: Do you guys know how to do the photoshop?
Clerks: Yeah. Why?
Sotomayor: Westlaw is down. I can't write my dissent.
Clerks: Okay.
Sotomayor: So, I'm going to need you to just get a picture of Roger Taney, superimposed with the Ghostbusters logo.
Clerks: Westlaw is down.
Samuel Alito: It's over? I can go home?
Mitch McConnell: Yes.
Clerks: No, you are a justice of the Supreme Court for life.
Alito: THIS IS HELL!
Clerks: Sorry.
Alito: Let me know when it's back up. I'm going to go punch something beautiful until it dies.
Stephen Breyer: Guys, did you know Westlaw was down?
Clerks: We're copy and pasting your prior opinions into new opinions right now.
Breyer: Good. Do you think the Chief will agree this time?
Clerks: He's too busy trying to keep Brett from streaking during this down time.
Clerks: Justice, Westlaw is down.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: It's okay, I remember them.
Clerks: We mean, like, we don't have a great way to read old cases right now.
Ginsburg: I said it was okay, I REMEMBER THEM.
Clerks: All of...
Ginsburg: Yes.
Clerks: Justice Thomas, there's no Westlaw.
Clarence Thomas: Every one of those majority opinions was wrong.
Clerks: That's a bold claim.
Thomas: It's always bold to stand up for the parts of the Constitution I agree with.
Chief Justice John Roberts: I'm sorry to inform that nation that Westlaw is down. As a result, the Supreme Court will rule on no cases whatsoever for the next five years.

Unless, of course, black people ask to vote, which we all know is unconstitutional.
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