After Harrison was discovered to be against the right to privacy, Bartlet decided to interview Mendoza, claiming to interview him for a spot on the "President's Commission for Hispanic Opportunity". At the meeting, Mendoza was surprised to learn that he was on the short list for the Supreme Court, and honored when Bartlet chose him for the spot.

Mendoza is summoned to the White House from a vacation in Nova Scotia. In the present, Sam and Toby become briefly lost in Connecticut after Sam attempts to use the North Star as a fixed point for guidance. Eventually reaching the police station where Mendoza is being held, Sam and Toby identify themselves and Mendoza to the officers on duty.

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2000年2月16日 · They've gone on critical business: the president's nominee for the Supreme Court, Roberto Mendoza, was pulled over by the local police for "driving while Hispanic" and refused to take a drunk test, so he was incarcerated. Toby has to talk the judge down from making a big public issue of his arrest by fighting the charges in court.

In Which a Trope Is Described: Following the coda with Mendoza being confirmed to the Supreme Court, the episode mainly focuses on six meetings between the main characters that occur over the course of one morning. The episode ends with Josh offering to buy lunch for the man he's been meeting with throughout the episode.

Secondly, Joseph Crouch (Mason Adams), the retiring justice, tells President Bartlet off for making a safe choice with Harrison and not even considering Judge Roberto Mendoza (Edward James Olmos). President Bartlet acts like he doesn't care what Crouch thinks, but asks Toby to gather information on Mendoza anyway.

In the lecture hall, Josh tells the audience that Supreme Court nominees are supposed to let the White House speak for them, something they have been unable to teach Judge Mendoza. In Leo's office, they find that Mendoza told the Chicago Tribune that the president was wrong to demand that Secretary O'Leary apologize to Wooden. C.J. tells Leo ...

2000年4月5日 · Six Meetings Before Lunch: Directed by Clark Johnson. With Rob Lowe, Moira Kelly, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney. The morning after Mendoza's confirmation, various staff members are brought back to earth by difficult meetings.

1999年11月24日 · When Sam uncovers an article that Harrison wrote declaring the right to privacy is not covered by the constitution, something totally against Bartlet's philosophy, the President officially nominates Mendoza instead.

Toby (who doesn’t know about Leo yet) tests Mendoza by asking him what he’d say to someone being fired because they refused to take a drugs test and Mendoza says he’d reinstate them because it would be an illegal search – it’s this that convinces Toby to back him.