Even U.S. Supreme Court justices get stuck in traffic. Justice Antonin Scalia was absent from the court briefly at the beginning of Tuesday’s court session, delayed because of a traffic accident that caused lengthy backups on several routes into Washington from Virginia, where the justice lives.
His absence was especially noticeable because two opinions he wrote (here and here) were handed down on Tuesday, and Scalia would have ordinarily read a summary of them from the bench. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. announced them instead, using the same summaries Scalia would have read aloud.
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