Synopsis

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.

Cast

Christopher Plummer

John Marshall Harlan

Frank Langella

Chief Justice Warren Burger

Ed Begley Jr.

Justice Harry Blackmun

Peter Gerety

William Brennan

Barry Levinson

Justice Potter Stewart

John Bedford Lloyd

Byron 'Whizzer' White

Fritz Weaver

Hugo Black

Harris Yulin

William O. Douglas

Danny Glover

Justice Thurgood Marshall

Benjamin Walker

Kevin Kennedy

Pablo Schreiber

Covert Becker

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Ben Steinfeld

Sam Edelstein

Dana Ivey

Mrs. Paige

Kathleen Chalfant

Ethel Harlan

Lisa Joyce

Donna Connolly

Peter McRobbie

Erwin Griswold

Damian Young

Ramsey Clark

Chuck Cooper

Chauncey Eskridge

Victor Slezak

Marshal of the Court

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Allie Woods Jr.

Petrus, Burger's Valet

Charlie Hewson

Burger's Clerk

Justin Swain

Burger's Second Clerk

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Max Spitulnik

Blackmun's Clerk

Nate Dern

Blackmun's Second Clerk

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