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Errand into the Wilderness

By propertyprof

This title of this post is taken from Perry Miller's essay on the Puritan mission--which itself from taken from a seventeenth century sermon.  But it's about the Washington Post's story this morning about the Federalist Society annual meeting.  The article quotes my colleague Bill Marshall on time spent (perhaps wandering) in the wilderness:

Last year, there was a candlelight dinner at sold-out, shut-down Union Station to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Federalist Society, with President Bush on stage and three Supreme Court justices in the audience.

This year, it's "welcome to the wilderness," as a former Clinton administration appointee good-naturedly told the group of lawyers yesterday at its annual meeting. William P. Marshall, a former deputy White House counsel for President Bill Clinton who teaches law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, promised to share survival tips after his party's eight-year absence from power.

Alfred L. Brophy

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).