Post Sixteen: There goes the Supreme Court . . .

. . . appointment I was hoping for. Apparently, being associated with the Federalist Society puts you in a fringe-element of conservative ideology. From www.powerlineblog.com:

Charles Lane reports in today's Washington Post: "Roberts listed in '97-'98 Federalist Society directory." And one can only hope that John Roberts at age 50 retains the acerbic view of the Supreme Court of John Roberts at age 28: "Early on, Roberts trained his wit on high court."

DEACON adds: Scott's title captures the McCarthyite flavor of the way liberals would like to treat the Federalist Society. As in this excerpt from Lane's piece:

"What matters is whether he hung out with them and not whether he signed the form or wrote the dues check," said David Garrow, a law professor at Emory University. "What's important is the intellectual immersion."

I'm fucked. I was the VP of the Federalist Society my last year of law school.

Post Fifteen: Over Two Weeks Later . . .

A quote from Robert H. Jackson, former Supreme Court Justice:

"I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned as I thought -- logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented -- interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night."

Love that. Sums up my legal career. Gives me hope if a judge on the Supreme Court bench had the same experience.