High Court Advocate Ken Starr Is Justices' Summer Employer

[LiberalFighter]

Tony Mauro, Legal Times 3/27/2007

When former judge, solicitor general and Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr argued a key First Amendment case before the Supreme Court last week, he was there in his capacity as of counsel at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis.

But he was also playing a lesser-known role: As dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law, Starr is also the summer employer of two of the justices who heard the case.

Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito Jr. will be teaching courses for the law school's summer programs -- Scalia for two days in London and Alito for two weeks in Malibu, Calif., university officials have confirmed. Typically, the justices are paid several thousand dollars for teaching stints like these, representing one of the few opportunities justices have to make outside income.

The juxtaposition of Starr as advocate and Starr as employer has surprised Starr's adversaries in the case before the Court, Morse v. Frederick. Starr represents, on a pro bono basis, high school principal Deborah Morse, who suspended student Joseph Frederick for displaying a banner with the message "BONG HITS 4 JESUS" across the street from the high school in Juneau, Alaska, during the Olympic torch run in 2002.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST!!

[JohnWxy]

1. I'm sure Starr doesn't see anything wroing with this. The ass is a sociopath.

[Supersedeas]

2. Impeaching a President for lying about sex--a fate sealed in History

Pepperdine - you deserve it.