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- Title: Today's Senate Confirmation Battles and the Role of the Federal Judiciary (Commencement Address for the Lewis and Clark Law School, May 24, 2003)
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 294 KB
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It is an honor for me to be with you at the 118th commencement of the Lewis & Clark Law School here in Portland, Oregon. (1) Honored though I am, it is nevertheless hard for me to believe, as I stand before you on this most joyous occasion, that forty years have passed since I sat where you are now sitting. While some of you may be able to envision yourselves forty years hence, you must believe me when I tell you that, on my graduation day, I had no inkling that I would be where I am now. And having just attended my own fortieth law school reunion, I can assure you that some of my classmates were only too eager to remind me that they could not believe that I had become a federal judge, either. Perhaps among your graduating class there is a future federal judge or two. Serving the nation in such a capacity is a worthy ambition, to be sure. I fear, however, that many lawyers who would otherwise welcome such an opportunity may feel compelled to decline it when faced with the prospect of enduring what has become--at least at the appellate level--an increasingly acrimonious Senate confirmation process.
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