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40 Third Branch 1 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/thirdbran40 and id is 1 raw text is: THE THIRD BRANCH Newsletter of the Federal Courts (4 Vol. 40 Number I January 2008 2007 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary On a warm and sunny Wednesday in September of the past year, a Russian judge, accompanied by a fellow Russian and two American judges, walked among the white headstones of Arlington National Cemetery. Like other visitors, the Russian judge came to pay his respects and lay a wreath at one of the markers. And like others navigating the solemn rows of white stones, he and his companions asked for directions from fellow visitors. A teacher leading a group of school children offered to help, and she led the judge to the grave of a former Army private who had served his country in World War II and again in later life. The teacher asked the Russian judge, through an interpreter, why he wished to honor the memory of William H. Rehnquist. The judge, Justice Yuriy Ivanovich Sidorenko of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, explained that, in Chief Justice Rehnquist's later years, they had become friends. The teacher remarked that she did not know much about our former Chief Justice, and she invited Justice Sidorenko to speak to her students about their friendship. Standing near the Chief Justice's head- stone, Justice Sidorenko provided an impromptu and personal insight into their shared interest in the rule of law. He expressed his admiration for our late Chief and described how the American jurist had provided advice and encouragement to Russian judges as they took up the challenge of reforming their judiciary in the post-Soviet era. During his September visit, Justice Sidorenko expressed similar sentiments in a private meeting with my colleagues and me. He recalled how, spddI Mue r SiI K bP 000

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