Supreme Court Humor

If you're a law student, professor, or practitioner, you'll likely get a good laugh out of Tom Smith's send-up of Justice O'Connor (and adulatory law professors) here. For those not familiar with American law, Justice O'Connor is well-known (notorious?) for what might be generously described as her "fact-sensitive" approach to decision-making--which often leads her to be the swing vote in many important cases--while at the same time making it very hard to say what set of legal principles has been guiding her decisions across cases. (The "players" in the mock interview are Doug Kmiec, right-wing law professor at Pepperdine, whose political prominence outstrips his intellectual achievements by a noticeable margin; Kathleen Sullivan, out-going liberal law Dean at Stanford; and John Yoo, conservative law professor at Berkeley, now visiting at Chicago.)