The Court eventually settled on some ground rules-for example, posing together only after a new Justice arrived, and in an arrangement based on seniority. While this custom probably began at the urging of Washington photographers interested in print sales, it ended up becoming one of the Court’s most popular and enduring traditions.įor 75 years after the first group photograph in 1867, the Justices gathered occasionally for a succession of several talented photographers who had just as many approaches for portraying the Justices. "Did our comrades die for nothing?" Warning: Several of the following images are NSFW and extremely graphic.Few visual cues say “Supreme Court” as well as its group photograph. "As soon as our enemy started to run out of breath, suddenly it's time for peace, we lay down our weapons?" he added. Now we're not going to let anyone out," said Sergei, a rebel commander whose nom de guerre is "Kunduz." We told them to surrender in Debaltseve, but they didn't. "We let them out once, and now they've come back to fight with us again. As the deadline for a new cease-fire deal came and went overnight on Sunday, the rebels kept on shelling Debaltseve. The soldiers were mostly local volunteers, though their commanding officers were Russian - as were the men who delivered them tanks and artillery. The rebels had just seized the town, cutting Debaltseve off from the last road leading to Ukrainian territory.
In the days preceding their victory, photographer Max Avdeev embedded with the First Slavyansk Brigade of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in the nearby town of Logvinove. A catastrophic defeat is now all but inevitable. On Tuesday, however, rebels seized most of the town and took several Ukrainian soldiers captive. For weeks, Ukraine's government denied rebel claims to have the town surrounded, even as artillery fire prompted most civilians to flee, killed hundreds, and destroyed the town beyond recognition. LOGVINOVE, Ukraine - When Russian-backed rebels went on the offensive in east Ukraine a month ago, the focal point of the clashes quickly switched to Debaltseve, a strategically key rail junction linking their two unsanctioned states.
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