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robe-sniffer

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  • maryw commented on the word robe-sniffer

    I'm not a robe-sniffer. I don't hang around judicial locker rooms sniffing for a few tidbits of judicial gossip or special insight. I rarely follow Supreme Court decisions, looking for subtle shifts in the Court's reasoning. I find most of that reasoning just judicial statesmanship, about as interesting and revealing as a presidential stump speech. Further, there are hundreds (perhaps thousands) of law professors much smarter than I who will mine most of the recoverable ore from these opinions. When I do doctrinal scholarship, I'm usually interested in lower court opinions and decisions from earlier centuries.
    James Lindgren, Reforming the American Law Review, 47 Stan. L. Rev. 1123, 1124 (1995)

    December 26, 2019