she has clerked for judge wilkins of the fourth circuit and worked for justice david souter. she teaches law at the college of william and mary. she is one of the rising stars in the legal academy. third to her right is john, who teaches law at northwestern university law school. he is a prolific scholar. he writes books the way most of us write letters. he has two books coming out. one on technology and democracy and one on the originalism from the harvard university press. next we have ted olson. he served at one time as solicitor general of the united states. he has argued 60 cases before the supreme court including two cases of this current term. i am sure my fellow panelists will join me in thanking the chief judge and the judges from the fourth circuit who made us feel so much at home during this judicial conference. here we are at the eighth year of the roberts court. it is a courts we will be talking about only by way of snapshots from a few cases. it is always difficult to generalize. when can we say about the roberts court? what might we say about it based on what t

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