Not many people go from walk-on basketball player at Kentucky to playing hoops on “the highest court in the land.” Jim Duff has. During the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Duff was at the elbow of his then-boss, Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, as the latter presided over the deliberations in the U.S. Senate. “It was amazing. You knew every moment was historical,” Duff said of the impeachment trial that ended with Clinton not being removed from office. “It was a very somber and serious proceeding. I thought every one involved rose to the magnitude of the event.”
