Poliblog - Predictions: Chief Justice Michael W. McConnell?
By Steven Taylor @ 12:27 pm
Bill Kristol on FNS predicts that Bush will appoint Michael W. McConnell to be Chief Justice.
I am vaguely aware of McConnell, so really can’t comment at the moment. Still, as the link above notes, he has an impressive resume.
I must admit, the idea of appointing a constitutional law scholar who also has practical relationship in the area of the judiciary strikes me, at least generically, as a good one.
Michael W. McConnell, Presidential Professor of Law, Judge, 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
B.A. with honors, Michigan State University
J.D. with honors, Order of the Coif, law review comment editor; University of Chicago Law School
Professor McConnell joined the faculty in 1997 after teaching at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years, where he was William B. Graham Professor of Law. Prior to his teaching career, Professor McConnell served as assistant to the solicitor general with the U.S. Department of Justice, assistant general counsel for the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and clerked for Chief Judge J. Skelly Wright, District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He also clerked for Justice William J. Brennan of the U.S. Supreme Court. Among the country’s most distinguished scholars in the fields of constitutional law and theory, with a specialty in the religion clauses of the First Amendment, Professor McConnell has conducted 11 arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is widely published in the fields of church-state relations and the First Amendment. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was sworn in as a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on January 3, 2003.
Teaches constitutional law, family law, state and local government, religion and the First Amendment |
