When Justice Samuel Alito Jr. joined the Supreme Court in January 2006, Justice Stephen Breyer was 29 days short of having the longest tenure as junior justice in the Court's history. The best-known duty of the junior justice is to answer the door at the Court's private conferences -- a habit that was hard to break once Alito joined the Court, Breyer says in a recent journal article on the role of junior justice: "I had been used to it like a Pavlovian dog."
January 10, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
When Justice Samuel Alito Jr. joined the Supreme Court in January 2006 as its junior justice, he kept Justice Stephen Breyer from breaking a high court record.
Breyer, who became a justice in 1994, fell 29 days short of having the longest tenure as junior justice in the Court’s history. That distinction is still held by Justice Joseph Story, who was junior justice for 4,228 days — more than 11 years — in the early 1800s.
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