OMIGOSH this was breathtaking. I haven't watched ten minutes of this series in toto, and I just happened to flip to this (I'm assuming from the '15 minutes' description given) moments after it started. I was awed. That David E. Kelley had the audacity to address this court, this directly, this specifically and with this brio, was exhilarating. (And surprising that he got away with it without some corp/legal/Board-of-Directors type demanding the oral argument be framed more 'fictionally' - not necessarily representative of any real persons or situation, etc. and ad nauseum.)

Of course the possibility of a lawyer's argument being allowed to stray as afield as did Spader's is negligible - but in today's politics, wherein the vested interests have a deathgrip on not only the democratic process but the judicial, what a relief to hear the frustration and desperation of otherwise voiceless compassion, reason - nay, sanity - and alert justice given audible and righteous sound.

vested interests have always had a deathgrip on the judicial branch. It's just that people are finally recongnizing that the judicial branch is political. It has always been political.