PJP Faculty member and Arnold and Porter partner Lisa Blatt, who has now gave a talk at the Chattaqua Institution in New York state last year on what she had learned in her years of advocacy before the Supreme Court. Her remarks, recently published in the popular law journal "Green Bag" . Below are some excerpts from her essay. A link to the complete text can be found here.1) I learned that the Court will continue to change the meaning of the Constitution. Although all of the Justices have expressed the importance of judicial restraint, the Court inevitably makes new law every time it interprets the Constitution...
2) The Supreme Court is not the impetus for constitutional change – we are.