Published 1/14/2009
at WSJ.com: Washington Wire
Susan Davis reports on the transition.
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden will visit the U.S. Supreme Court today after an invitation was extended by Chief Justice John Roberts .
This is the third time in modern history that a president-elect and vice-president elect have made pre-inaugural stops to the court— Bill Clinton and Al Gore visited the court on Dec. 8, 1992 and Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush visited the court on Nov. 19, 1980.
Obama and Biden will meet with Roberts and the associate justices in the ceremonial West Conference Room, and are expected to take a tour of the court. The event is private and closed to the press.
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