beside the vote. in the super secret conference room of the justices, sometimes someone knocks at the door to deliver coffee or someone s eye glasses and it s always the junior justice s responsibility to go get, to open the door, no other justice has to arouse themselves. the other responsibility the junior justice has, the supreme court has a lot of committees. they have a committee on the building. they have committee on procedure, they committee on commuters. they also have a committee on the supreme court cafeteria, which is considered the least desirable committee to be on because after wall, who cares? the junior justice always has to serve on the cafeteria committee, so elena kagan is now free of those responsibilities. hazing inside the supreme court. in addition to having cafeteria responsibilities he gets a vote. big cases coming up as soon as this week on religious liberty and this is where justice