The Sleuth Archive: Supreme Court

Advice From One Supreme Court Sherpa to Another

Jamie Brown, left, special assistant to the president; Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.; former Indiana senator Daniel R. Coats; and police officer R.D. Moore on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) President Obama's first Supreme Court nomination is shining a spotlight on the delicate and critical role of the sherpa, the person (or persons) tapped with ushering the nominee through the grisly...