Elyssa Friedland & Kermit Roosevelt III, FIRST STREET

Elyssa Friedland & Kermit Roosevelt III, FIRST STREET

Kermit Roosevelt III: First Street is a character-driven drama that's set inside the United States Supreme Court. The main characters are law clerks for the supreme court. We thought it would be very interesting to take this powerful important branch of government that operates mostly in secrecy and try to give people a look inside it through the lives of the people who work behind the scenes. You read about the justices sometimes. You never read about the clerks, but they're there. They're working on all these cases. In some situations, they're actually very important. Sometimes they affect the outcome of the case.