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But the coming week, with the Vice President's chief of staff on the witness stand, promises to be the most-watched episode yet. It could perk up flagging viewer interest.
The Senate plenary has been converted into a lawyers’ playroom, with objections, invocations of rules, rulings, and precedents peppering the often tiresome exchanges between the prosecution and defense. Latin phrases, so beloved by lawyers, are being dropped so casually that online publications saw fit to put up art card primers for the mass audience.
Legal maxims have always been the recourse of both the erudite and the pretentious, part of lawyers’ default vocabulary, widely understood in courtrooms. But there’s no applause from the general public. Latin phrases? Sounds Greek to me. At some point, one is tempted to doze off.
