At the Ninth Circuit Conference: Kathleen Sullivan and Janet Napolitano
Greetings from the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. We’ve been having a great time schmoozing with federal judicial celebrities, here in lovely (but surprisingly chilly) Monterey.
Yesterday we participated in an excellent panel discussion about the future of journalism, together with some boldface names: Linda Greenhouse (moderator), former Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times; Nina Totenberg, of NPR; Judge Robert Lasnik, chief judge of the Western District of Washington; and Hal Fuson, Executive Vice President, Copley Press. We got to play the role of blogger-barbarian at the gate, which was fun.
We’ve also enjoyed attending the excellent educational programs and speeches. Two of the early highlights: a review of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recently completed Term, by the noted constitutional law scholar and former Stanford Law School dean, Kathleen Sullivan (top right); and a speech by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (center right). We got to meet both Dean Sullivan and Secretary Napolitano — both of them possible Supreme Court nominees, both of them fabulous — and it was thrilling.
(We even got Secretary Napolitano’s business card. Who knew that Cabinet members got business cards? Does President Obama have a business card?)
We were planning to write up both of these events, until we saw the excellent accounts of Articleman over at dagblog. We refer you to his delightful write-ups (links below).
The Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference: Dean Kathleen Sullivan Speaks on the Supreme Court [dagblog.com]
The Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference: Secretary Napolitano Speaks About Our Security [dagblog.com]
P.S. If you’d like to see our rough notes on Dean Sullivan’s SCOTUS round-up, click here to download (Word document). But these notes are very rough, not converted to polished prose; you’re much better off with Articleman’s elegant summary.
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I miss you TexASS!
.....crickets.....
Lat you ought to consider readership interest - best gauged by the number of comments - when deciding which topics to blog about. Hint: If only three (non-topical) comments are posted after 30 minutes, ditch all similar ideas.
What's Napolitano's phone number? Wonder if she gave it out like the way chicks give out those fake numbers to guys at clubs that go to a pre-recorded "piss off" message.
i'd rather look at Sotomayor through a peep hole than read this
@5 - I will be at the Taco Bell on K Street at about 12:30.
Sotomajor
Did Kathleen Sullivan ever pass the California bar exam? I remember she failed it a couple of years ago.
Janet Napolitano as SCOTUS Justice? You have got to be kidding me.
Scissor me, Janet!
Image of the Day:
Judge Sotomayor scissoring Judge Halverson.
You can thank me later.
"thrilling"..."delightful"..."fabulous"...
Words rarely used by heterosexual males. I'm not saying...I'm just saying.
who is this sullivan that you speak of? oh i remember now the sls dean who failed the cali bar - pretty funny
turdteenth
Going to my dentist is more entertaining and enlightening than the Ninth Circuit conference.
Is Sanai there stalking Kozinski?
If liberals are holding a bitch fest, ATL will be there to tow the party line.
3 - I'm not sure people should use the ATL comments for guidance on anything in life......
Sullivan was a star Harvard Law
prof--friend of Estrich at USC
and visited at Stanfraud and SC
Loved the West Coast moved
to Stanford. She then went
into private practice arguing
Supreme Court Cases.
One case she argued in CALI
but no Cali. license--Judge would not
let her assoc. with a Cali. firm/atty as a remedy.
She took the Cal. Bar for practicing attorneys.
Is different than the regular Cal Bar---in the sense
that it is much easier.
Ok--lastt sentence predicate is a joke.
It is a different Bar exam--shorter--do not know
if it is easier .
Actually back in the early 90's the best schools usually had lower pass rates. The schools were intellectual nirvanas--not bar-prep schools.
This changed when the market tightened in 92
15 no
but Kozinski is offering a mini-workshop
using the Snakefkrs case--there will be a re-enactment
with both Sullivan and Napolit. in starring roles.
Sponsored by troutman & assoc
http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/819/819.F2d.451.85-5255.html