Elmore Leonard and the Supreme Court
I just don’t know why people don’t get it.
Read my lips folks; what an attorney argues for a client is not necessarily or even usually what he believes in his heart.
Okay, now to the Elmore Leonard link to all this and why it may serve to put the Roberts nomination in some kind of perspective. Big disclaimer here: I don’t know his politics and have no idea what Elmore thinks about John G. Roberts and this is in no way to be taken as any kind of endorsement. But anyway . . .
. . . I am a great fan of Elmore Leonard’s writing and for those of you who may not have read him, you might have seen the movie Get Shorty, or that Paul Newman reputation-maker of the 60’s, Hombre, a classic. Both films from his books. Hell of a writer. Nice guy. I can say that because Elmore was here in Prague a couple years back for the Prague Summer Writer’s Workshop and we chatted at a signing he was doing at the Big Ben Bookstore. But he made a point earlier in the week, during one of the panels he was on…