Adam Liptak’s NYTimes story, linked below, carefully explains how Georgetown Law Professor, Marty Lederman’s amicus brief may have provided the key argument leading the Supreme Court to put a pause on President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Illinois. Who says legal scholars can’t make a difference? Whether one agrees with Marty’s argument or not, we can all congratulate him on deploying his skills to influence high stakes judicial decisionmaking.




