The Supreme Court is supposed to house the smartest and brightest among the lawyer class. Sadly, that is not the case. With respect to its three Democrat appointees, Justice Elena Kagan consistently demonstrates that she can write a sentence and offer an opinion or dissent that isn’t just a collection of words. She generally gets to her point. Good for her. Her opinions are often based on feelings rather than the law, but at least she doesn’t embarrass herself with long-winded gibberish. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, on the other hand, write with the flair of middling fourth graders writing “what I did for summer vacation” theme papers. Just filling pages. Lawyers often write a lot of nonsense. I’ve seen lots of 20-page pleadings that would have been better at 10. More is not always good. But it is billable.Read More
Of Supreme Court Verbosity and Fraudulent Billing
