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Lecturer in Law Thomas Goldstein is quoted in a Politico.com article on an American Constitution Society meeting:
The attendees “are the people who hope and believe they'll be Barack Obama's legal apparatus," said Thomas Goldstein, an ACS member and the co-head of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s Supreme Court practice. “But I don’t think anyone’s necessarily asked Obama.”
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"The Federalist Society has had the benefit that conservatives care a ton about judges as a political issue," Goldstein said. "The people on the left never embraced the importance of judicial appointments in the same way.”