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Yet another different SCOTUS short-list

By Douglas A. Berman

Marcia Coyle has this new piece in The National Law Journal headlined "An Alternative Short List for the High Court: Law professors say whom they would nominate to the U.S. Supreme Court. Are any on the president's radar?" Here is how the piece begins: Is New York Law School's Annette Gordon-Reed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning law professor/historian, on President Obama's Supreme Court "short list"? Or, Alabama lawyer Bryan Stevenson, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award recipient and tireless advocate on behalf of indigent defendants and prisoners? How about veteran consumer rights champion Alan Morrison and University of Notre Dame Law School Dean Patricia O'Hara? Probably not. But they appear on the short lists of more than a dozen constitutional law and Supreme Court scholars asked by The National Law Journal to step into Obama's shoes to pick a nominee to succeed retiring Justice David Souter...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).