robes

According to legend, Tyre is the place where purple pigment was first created - the dye crushed out of snail shells to embroider royal robes.

And after donning the black robes, they helped transform the 5th Circuit into a factory for fringe conservative theories.

We learned last week that in 2017, Justice Samuel Alito—apparently bored with the drab black robes of a U.S.

He dressed in robes and a mask to disguise his true identity and used props to encourage violence, including a 3D-printed plastic handgun made in his bedroom, the court was told.

“If the public views judges as politicians wearing robes, it raises the question of why we even need judges to decide these issues versus letting the actual politicians—the legislators—decide these questions,” said Judge Gregg Costa, a former appeals court judge who resigned in 2022.