For the cover of Reason Magazine's July issue, Mike Tofanelli depicted a 3-way "donnybrook" between Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and John Roberts. The cover story "Conservatives vs Libertarians" addresses potential dissension in the Conservative ranks of the Supreme Court.

"The fight scene was a compositional challenge. The goal was to show lots of movement and chaos without becoming too busy and detracting from the headline and masthead…"

"I wanted to lead the viewers' eye from one face to the other and I also wanted each justice to receive an equal amount of abuse from the other--I had fun with it!"