When Clint Bolick asked the U.S. Supreme Court last September to grant him time to argue in favor of school vouchers, he had little reason to expect the request to be granted. The Supreme Court rarely steps into rifts among counsel. Bolick, the longtime vice president of the Institute for Justice, was peeved that the main plaintiff, the state of Ohio, was sending an inexperienced assistant attorney general to argue on Feb. 20 in what could be the most important church-state case in decades. Bolick has worked on the voucher issue for years.
So it was a surprise when the Supreme Court on Jan. 22 issued an order adding 20 minutes to the usual hour-long allotment for Zellman, Superintendent of Public Instruction of Ohio v. Doris Simmons-Harris, No. 00-1751, and two related cases.
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