the justices include all sorts of quirky outliers, including women, people with French accents, and men with fantastic hair. (Canada is the kind of place in which Simon Potter, from Avocats Sans Frontiers, intervening in the case today for Khadr, speaks English with a Scottish accent yet argues his case to the justices in French.) It's mainly striking because Canada, for better or worse, is in a legal conversation with the rest of the world in a way the United States is not.Not having Antonin Scalia there was a relief too.
Lithwick is generally interesting on US Supreme Court matters, and Scotusblog is extraordinary (if usually more than we want to know). Does any Canadian blog cover the SCC with anything like this kind of flair and seriousness?