I just heard that Associate United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter is going to retire.
This means that President Obama will have the opportunity to appoint someone new.
I know who my first pick would be: Larry Lessig.
Those of you unfamiliar with the name can read more about him here.
I once had the pleasure of hearing Lessig speak at the Free Speech & Economic Power Symposium at Northwestern University School of Law.
He was on a panel with some of the nation's other eminent legal scholars and I watched him elegantly defeat them with his opening statement.
It wasn't that he dispatched their arguments head on, I don't even remember if he addressed them.
It was that his approach to the problem was so novel that it was literally, astounding.
He won by default.
It was obvious to everyone that the other scholars, titans in their own right, were completely outgunned.
His intelligence is supra-human.
Anyway, I don't know what his politics are, but at least we can be sure that he is smart.
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