In marblehalls normally bustling with suit-and-tie legislators and lobbyists, witnesses wearing camouflage, jeans and ball caps now file into committee rooms for sessions.
The justices never discuss internal strategy, and the full story of how health care was decided in the marblehalls of the court may never be fully known.
Finally, over a life of personal trials and tribulations, Kennedy had developed great "empathy" -- a word recently much maligned, but all-important in the Senate's staid, marblehalls.