From today’s confirmation hearing

SENATOR KENNEDY: Ah, Judge Roberts, do you know how to, ah, make shadow animals? I mean, with your hands?

JUDGE ROBERTS: Yes. Yes, Senator, as a matter of fact, I do. Here. [Demonstrates.]

Props to my man Eugene Volokh and (I presume) one of his students for the original core concept of the joke.

Burt Likko

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