BEASTLY VOCABULARY
A protective spine of a porcupine, or a stiff tail feather of a bird used as a pen
a quill
He accepted Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House
Grant
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) determined that a state prosecution couldn't introduce evidence obtained by a search without this
a warrant
Like a lobster or a shrimp, a crab has one of these; unlike them, it keeps it curled under its midsection
a tail
A poem of his says grass is "the beautiful uncut hair of graves"
Walt Whitman
"Lupine" means similar to this animal
a wolf
He was a law professor at the University of Arkansas
Clinton
In 2004, Sandra Day O'Connor wrote an opinion establishing that U.S. citizens who are enemy combatants do have rights under this Bill of Rights amendment not to be held indefinitely without due process
the Fifth Amendment
The robber crab of the South Pacific is also called this, from the palm product that's its principal diet
coconut crab
This Poe story tells of a prisoner's torture during the Spanish Inquisition
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
Jump into this one-piece outfit like those worn by Michelle Pfeiffer & Uma Thurman on film
a catsuit
He commanded PT-109
Kennedy
Each associate justice is permitted to have up to 4 of these assistants; usually they are recent top law school graduates
clerks
Crabs of the genus Uca get this name from the male's habit of holding one oversized claw like a violin
fiddler crab
The "winner" of the title event of this Shirley Jackson story is stoned to death
"The Lottery"
Cows described by this adjective have had their horns removed, not their opinions recorded
polled
He was Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of State
Madison
A lot more people got to know what the Supreme Court sounded like on December 11, 2000, when the oral argument in this case became the first one released for same-day broadcast
Bush v. Gore
A crab's front legs develop into claws called chelae, better known by this "ouchy" name
pincers (pinchers)
In 1830 he had 5 tales & sketches published in the Salem Gazette
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A snood is the fleshy appendage hanging above the beak of one of these birds
turkey
He served as Tennessee's first U.S. representative
Andrew Jackson
In 2013 the Court struck down key parts of this 1965 act that forces certain states to pre-clear election law changes
the Voting Rights Act
Familiar but lonely name for crabs of the family Paguridae that often appropriate empty snail shells
hermit crab
This 1882 story by Frank Stockton leaves its title question unanswered
"The Lady, or the Tiger?"