Chief Justice Roberts has a well-deserved reputation as a stellar oral advocate. In Bryan Garner’s words, the oral arguments he gave during his days at Hogan were “generally breathakingly good.”
Or as Miguel Estrada once put it, the “G” in John G. Roberts stands for “God.”
In 2006 and 2007, Bryan Garner interviewed seven members
Controlling anxiety is one of the hardest parts of oral argument.
Everybody gets nervous. You never really outgrow it.
I’ve seen even very experienced, very good lawyers–lawyers much better than I’ll ever be–undone by their own nervous energy at oral argument, spitting legal propositions in the panel’s general direction at twice the speed of human
The Fourth Circuit is slated to hear two appeals in cases testing the constitutionality of the new federal health care law on Tuesday. (HT: VLWblog.)
Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal will defend the law against separate challenges brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia, Commonwealth v. Sebelius, No. 11-1057, and Liberty University, Liberty University