Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, on Monday, March 21, 2022. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
Although they never confronted me directly about it or said so aloud, some judges before whom I’ve appeared over the years, must have surely wondered to themselves at times: “Does this guy actually believe in the argument he’s making?”
Hard to acknowledge publicly, but truthfully, at times, I imagine, my legal arguments have stretched or even strayed to the outer boundaries. I have seen making those arguments, however, as my ethical duty of “zealous advocacy”—most of us, particularly among the criminal bar, do.
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