Government Lawyer

Where is your location?

Where do you reside in this apartment?

Door on the right. OK, go over there.

Can you please get that? We can talk at the end. First, we need to clear this room and make sure there's nothing dangerous or anything in here. Is there any weapons in the apartment?

Where does your roommate reside?

So I assume the court is asking in a constitutionally relevant sense whether I'm just... No, I'm asking in a common sense way. So I don't have an answer in a common sense way, Your Honor?

I don't have a view to express on that question, Your Honor.

For the same answer with the same caveats as before, Your Honor.

I think I'm going to have the same answer, Your Honor, which is that we don't concede that it's a constitutionally relevant expression.

Same answer, Your Honor.

I'd have to give you the same answer, Your Honor.

And I have the same answer as before, Your Honor.

Not in any constitutionally?

I understand, Your Honor, that as you said on Thursday, you may write an opinion that says the government refused to answer that question or was unable to answer that question. I don't have an answer for you.

Yes, Your Honor.

Because you actually prevented me from appearing in front of you on that basis, I think it would be fair if courts were subject to the same kind of scrutiny to demand that you support the reason for having done that.