For the first time in law school, it’s 8:00 AM and I’m in class.
“What an unhappy group of 1Ls you look like,” Professor Kelley just said.
What brought about this horrific turn of events, you ask? Well, Prof. Kelley revealed last Friday that, for reasons he cannot yet disclose*, he has to wrap up the course halfway through the semester, in early March. As a result, instead of a 9-9:50 class, ConLaw has become a 8-9:50 class so that we can cram in all the material.
So the good news is, ConLaw will be over in about a month. The bad news is, ConLaw won’t be over for about two hours.
And then I have class straight through until 12:15 PM. Four hours and 15 minutes of consecutive class time on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Ugh.
*Rumors on the Internets say that Prof. Kelley, who clerked for Justices Scalia and Berger and who worked on the Bush legal team in the 2000 Florida legal battle, is going to be appointed to a federal judgeship or some such thing. But as far as I know, that’s pure speculation, and I have no corroboration for it whatsoever.
UPDATE: Looking at the currrent list of federal judicial vacancies, one stands out: a seat on the Federal District Court of Northern Illinois, the only vacant seat on that court (or anywhere in the Seventh Circuit, for that matter). It has been vacant since April 17, 2004, and there is no nominee yet.
P.S. Kelley just referred to “my friend Miguel Estrada — you may have heard of him.”
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February 7th, 2005 at 9:17:03 am
It’s particularly difficult to make to class at 8:00 when you’ve been kissing the ivory all night after eating something funky. I didn’t even make it in until 8:45.
February 7th, 2005 at 10:01:06 am
It’s probably not a judicial nomination — those have to be confirmed and there’s no reason, really, that he couldn’t continue to teach during confirmation. A few of us 3Ls and staff are pretty sure it’s an inferior office.
Also, Miguel Estrada is Prof. Kelley’s best friend from law school. It sounds like pompous name-dropping, but it’s true.
February 7th, 2005 at 10:10:34 am
“Inferior office” would be… executive branch?
I didn’t think the Estrada thing was pompous name-dropping, I just thought it was interesting. :)
February 8th, 2005 at 10:52:55 pm
An inferior officer is basically anyone who doesn’t have to be confirmed. The rumor on the street is that he’s taking Gonzales’ old job in the White House Office of Legal Counsel . . . basically a great big thank you for his work in 2000.
February 8th, 2005 at 11:37:05 pm
Interesting!
Professor Kaveny said in class today that it’s “one of two things,” but then she said “we don’t know what those two things are,” which didn’t make much sense to me. But she implied we’ll find out soon.
February 8th, 2005 at 11:40:40 pm
Update: It would seem that the rumor on the street is wrong.