Word: argumentive
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Since neither of the lawyers Tuesday pressed the Harvard professors’ brief, at least one of the justices would have to take up the statutory argument in discussions with his or her colleagues...
...Rosenkranz killed the Harvard brief argument,” University of Mississippi law professor Paul M. Secunda ’93 said...
...think it’s most likely that Justice Breyer would raise the statutory argument in the justices’ conference,” Yale law professor Robert A. Burt wrote in an e-mail. “Breyer took the clearest initiative in raising it with the solicitor general...
Some of the more conservative members of the court might be swayed by the argument as well...
...only Justice Souter, but also, possibly, Justice Breyer—and maybe even Justice [Sandra Day] O’Connor—could be attracted to the statutory argument,” Martha L. Minow, the Smith professor of law at Harvard who helped to organize the faculty brief, wrote in an e-mail. Minow was one of a team of Harvard Law professors who organized the filing of the brief among the faculty—along with Frank I. Michelman, who is the Walmsley University professor at Harvard, and David J. Barron...