Only standing space remained in the back of the room, as students and faculty gathered to watch a play that included Louisiana’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Pascal Calogero.Paul Baier, Law professor, wrote and directed the play, “Father Chief Justice” in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, who served as chief justice from 1910-1921. The play celebrating Constitution Day was written to educate people about the greatest chief justice of the 20th century, according to Baier. During the play, performed Thursday at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baier said no one remembers the Confederate boy from Louisiana who became the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. “I decided to write a play about Chief Justice White and spent a summer writing it,” Baier said. White was raised in Thibodaux and served on the Louisiana Supreme Court for two years before his 26-year career serving on the Supreme Court. Baier said Justice Antonin Scalia described perfectly how important it is to remember people such as Chief Justice White.”History gave us our identity, if we forget about our history we forget about ourselves,” Scalia said when he visited Louisiana and stood on the porch of White’s home in Thibodaux. The play highlighted several of White’s important decisions to fight for the constitution during his career. The scene performed by Louisiana’s present chief justice highlighted White’s fight to protect the 5th Amendment, a persons right to not incriminate himself in a criminal case, in a case Brown v. US. Baier said the Chief Justice Calogero agreed to participate in the play because his own views matched White. A Federal law creating Constitution Day, states every publicly-funded educational institution must sponsor an informative program about the constitutions history, Baier told The Daily Reveille. The play was performed for the first time with Calogero at the French Quarter May 22.The play was sponsored in part by the Law Center Student Bar Association and the Louisiana Bar Foundation. —-Contact Joy Lukachick at [email protected]