The Court has released the transcripts of the eight arguments from the first sitting of the Term, including that in No. 04-623, Gonzales v. Oregon.
For the historical record: The Chief Justice’s first-ever comment in an oral argument (other than “The Court will now hear argument in IBP, Inc. vs. Alvarez and Tum vs. Barber Foods, Inc. Mr. Phillips.”), was this remark to Carter Phillips in No. 03-1238, IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez: “So, your approach introduces, really, a third concept. You have the principal activities . . . — either preliminary or postliminary — and now you’ve got a third concept: integral. But . . . that’s nowhere in the statute.”
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