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Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced that she's coming out with a video game called "Our Courts," to be released in 2009. While she claims her motives for becoming a gamer are to counter critics who claim that judges are "godless" activists, we think it's more likely she wants a piece of that $1 billion Grand Theft Auto IV is expected to rake in.

Will the kids flock to her video game as they have to GTA IV? Come on, a game about the judicial system? Of course they will. We just got an advance copy.

• Perform missions for shady underworld figures to rise from lowly clerk to Supreme Court Justice.


• Engage in real issues and real problems—and real beatings and real rapes, too.


• Main character can steal opening lines, legal strategies, and legal maneuvering.


• Main character has 18 customizable robes.


• Lie, cheat, and steal your way to the top, then prosecute yourself to the fullest extent of the law.


• Play online with 11 peers and a drug-dealing foreman.


• Wield a variety of powerful tools and weapons, from LexisNexis to the Patriot Act.


• Run over a hooker, then prosecute yourself.


• Enact revenge on a bailiff or strike a deal.


• Make your objections known with a cache of redesigned weapons.


• Hire hookers to blackmail presiding judge.

Plus, excruciatingly boring game-play finally inspires kids to go outside and play!

Posted by: David Bourgeois and Jason Reich