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SCALIA UNLEASHED.

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

The most engaging, interesting and perhaps (just perhaps) the brightest of the Supreme Court Justices  recently let loose in a talk at the American University's College of Law. The title links to the Time's article. Here's something even our favourite federal blogger will like: Scalia on Hahvad:?By and large,? he said, ?I?m going to be picking from the law schools that basically are the hardest to get into. They admit the best and the brightest, and they may not teach very well (Rumpole wails: "say it an't so Mr. Markus") , but you can?t make a sow?s ear out of a silk purse. If they come in the best and the brightest, they?re probably going to leave the best and the brightest, O.K.??So which is it David: Silk purse or sow's ear? (ps. we know we're  a "know nothing peon"  who did not go to a "best and brightest" law school...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).