UTR Discovery Request: ACS National Convention

This weekend, in Washington, D.C., the American Constitution Society (ACS) is holding its 2005 National Convention. For those of you who are not familiar with it, the ACS is the left-wing's answer to the Federalist Society.

Check out the ACS Convention's star-studded line-up -- oodles and oodles of federal judges will be in attendance! (Notably absent: Second Circuit Judge Guido Calabresi, who got himself into some hot water with his controversial remarks at last year's conference.) Panelists at this year's ACS conference -- mostly liberals, but with a few conservatives thrown in for good measure -- include the following Article III boldface names:

--two high-powered former D.C. Circuit judges, Judge Abner Mikva, who served as White House Counsel in the scandal-plagued Clinton administration, and Judge Patricia Wald, "a little woman with a big sense of style";

--Judge Rosemary Barkett, who has taken up Judge Phyllis Kravitch's mantle as liberal lionness of the Eleventh Circuit;

--two judicial superhotties from the Ninth Circuit, Judge Alex Kozinski and Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw (who is simply fabulous);

--three members of the Elect who now sit on that notoriously liberal court: Judge Raymond Fisher, Judge William Fletcher (a fast-rising feeder judge), and the all-powerful She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named;

--her partner in crime, the grandfather of liberal judicial activism, the Emperor Palpatine;

--from the next generation of bench-based activists, Judge Nancy Gertner (D. Mass.), who is also a judicial hottie (see item #2);

--Judge Boyce F. Martin, Jr. (6th Cir.), the sworn enemy of the well-regarded conservative jurist, Judge Danny J. Boggs (6th Cir.); and

--two brilliant former legal academics who might someday sit on the Supreme Court: in a Republican administration, the well-dressed Judge Michael McConnell (10th Cir.), and in a Democratic administration, Judge Diane Wood (7th Cir.). (Judge McConnell and Judge Wood are both members of the Elect, of course.)

Please email Article Three Groupie with sight-ations from the ACS Convention, which sounds like it will be a fantastic event for judicial celebrity sightings. Please pay particular attention to the judges' attire and eating habits, and listen carefully for funny anecdotes and good gossip. (The conference proceedings will be covered by the ACS Blog, but A3G expects their coverage to focus on substance rather than style.)

A3G discussed last year's Federalist Society Convention in loving detail; she'd like to give the ACS Convention similarly lavish treatment in the pages of her blawg (despite her ideological disagreements with the ACSers). She thanks you in advance for your tidbits and contributions!

Comments

[Lefty Lunatic]

She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? Let's go ahead and name her.

Judge Marsha Berzon, Judge Marsha L. Berzon, the Honorable Marsha Berzon, the Honorable Marsha L. Berzon, the Most Magnificent Marsha Berzon, the Empress of the Universe.

Marsha Marsha Marsha! Berzon Berzon Berzon!

HA HA HA!!! Now she will come in the night and destroy your blog!!! YOU ARE DOOMED!!!