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What About the Wigs?

Submitted by Krisnelson from Google Reader

Oct 21, 2009

Summary

Eric recently had a post on the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which opened last Friday. But he misses the major point -- well, not really a major point -- which is that the wigs are apparently going away:

For the official opening ceremony Friday morning, the 11 judges (one slot is vacant) shed their old red robes and the wigs worn by lords on formal occasions -- Lord Phillips calls it the "Father Christmas outfit" -- in favor of new ceremonial black robes, embellished with gold lace and thread.

(More after the jump.)

Another parallelism/circularity there; the late Chief Justice Rehnquist had his gold stripes stitched into his robe so as to emulate the British Lord Chancellor in the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera, Iolanthe. And our judicial big shots were there too for the opening:

The occasion is noteworthy enough that the U.S. Supreme Court canceled its session Friday so that Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer could attend the U.K. court's opening, with Queen Elizabeth II presiding.

But let's keep our focus

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