SUPREME COURT STYLE: Who's The Best-Dressed Justice? (PHOTOS, POLL)

*UPDATE: Sandra Day O'Connor has won best-dressed Justice! Scroll down for pull poll results.*

The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor has turned the spotlight on the Supreme Court, and, naturally, what those Justices are wearing. It turns out Supreme Court Justices are permitted to design their own robes, and quite a few have developed signature styles: Justices Ruth Ginsberg and Sandra Day O'Connor had lacy collars, Justice Antonin Scalia breaks out a funny hat out for every inauguration, Justice John Paul Stevens loves his bow-ties, and the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist added lots of flair with his famous Gilbert & Sullivan-inspired gold stripes.

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As the first female justice, Sandra Day O'Connor (now retired) was a trailblazer in law and in fashion. Because she didn't wear a jacket and tie under her robe, O'Connor had to improvise. She settled on the lace scarf and the rest is history.

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Comments

[rzan1]

Where are the comments?

[sinope]

stripes = pimp

[rubinoff]

fashion???....that thing in front of Sandra, looks like a mini-laced-tablecloth...lol
they look like penquins in a monastery.

[cdub1991]

I'm sure someone has already asked, but what IS that thing on Scalia's head?

[FSM]

If you turn it over it is known as a bedpan.

[toxicbrainpoison]

He is such an ass but that hat is hillarious.. It actually looks like the muslim Kufe. Salam Malakum my brotha

[rzan1]

I kind of like the little bow tie.

[whoknew---]

Me too...

It does looks geeky in a good way...

[weatherwaxx]

Can I nominate Scalia as biggest creep to infest the SCOTUS? With "Long-Dong" Thomas as First Runner-Up?

This is the Supreme Court, you chowderheads, not a frakkin' runway.

[rodeman]

Hands down, Willie Rehnquist and the stripes. What was this man thinking?

[thegirlnextdoor]

I guess you had to be a Gilvert and Sullivan fan to understand.

[Athenawise]

Or Rufus T. Firefly, president & dictator of Freedonia.

[lillibelle]

While the black robe certainly complements Justice O'Connor's baby blues, I would have to vote for Justice John Paul Stevens who is still pursuing the true authorship of the Shakespearean sonnets. Bet he'd make the best dinner companion, too. Of course, I would most definitely come dressed as Ophelia.

[thewestmorg]

I think the Morticia Addams look is really sexy

[lillibelle]

Say it in french and I may let you have your way, you beast!

[roger37]

O'Connor was usually dressed in naked ambition, so she doesn't qualify in a contest for best-dressed.

(Google her + Bush v. Gore)

[weatherwaxx]

Did you catch her speech when she left office? I don't think she had any idea of the damage she was doing at the time of the decision... but she learned.

[roger37]

O'Connor is (or was) first a politician with a politician's ambitions, so, no, I don't think she learned. She visited George W. Bush on us (although we were stupid enough to reelect him) because she wanted to be the first female Chief Justice.

I heard that she "didn't like" what W was doing, but I never heard her say anything about it after she retired.

[thewestmorg]

I can just see her first day on the court with all the justices welcoming her aboard. And then Clarence Thomas, with his suave style, gives her his Long Dong Silver line. At which point she slaps him upside his head so hard his brain cell goes flying across the room.
Oohh, i can't wait.

[IndyReader]

Sorry, but Scalia looks like how I'd imagine Torquemada might dress.

[weatherwaxx]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada

Apart from the hat v. tonsure thing, the resemblance is frightening.

[apolloguide]

William O. Douglas was the last good judge on the court and he wore a backback and hiked on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and went the entire 200 mile length of the Appalachian Trail on foot. Everyone else on the court since has been a tool of the elite.

[apolloguide]

2000 miles (not 200) sorry!

[kshawNCvoter]

Really HuffPo.....Really? Fail.....NEXT!!!!!111

[Diogenis]

Just so much one can do with a black robe. We need style? Hahahahahaha

[thewestmorg]

They need to start wearing the British legal wig

[ClearingtheAir2010]

Ghouls come to mind

[Bafun]

OG!!! Is this the Supreme Court of the US or a nursing home? An age limit is really necessary!

[DaretoHOPE]

Agreed!!!

[weatherwaxx]

The point is, age = experience. There's a point to it.