Legal Commentary

To influence SCOTUS, why would you turn to a law school dean?

By Beldar

I commend to your attention, and associate myself with the views expressed in, this post by Wisconsin Law Prof. Ann Althouse. Key bit (emphasis hers):

It seems that Kagan has been very good at influencing professors and that Obama read that (and his own direct contact with her) to mean that she'll be good at influencing Supreme Court Justices. That may be a poor inference. I think a law school dean is engaged in more of a social enterprise in bringing groups of people together. But the Justices ? as the oral argument shows ? deal in much more technical legal arguments. They may bend liberal or conservative, but the arguments need to be there.

But read the whole thing. You won't want to miss the info about Solicitor General Kagan's handful of appearances before the SCOTUS as an advocate.

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).