Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
The conservative legal movement has been extremely effective at identifying people who are ideological true believers and getting them credentialed, getting them the attention of the White House, and getting them onto the bench.
I don’t think there’s anything comparable to that sort of coordination on the other side.
— Carolyn Shapiro, former Illinois solicitor general and founder and co-director of Chicago-Kent’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States, in comments given to Bloomberg Law, on how conservative lawyers are moving so quickly from the bar to the bench.
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