A whirlwind of a day with AllisonJRiggs, Chief Counsel for Voting Rights at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
isn't intimidated by much. As the head of the voting rights program at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, she has argued cases in federal courthouses throughout the southern United States — and even before the Supreme Court. Riggs' heavy workload requires her to criss-cross the country, fielding calls from reporters and listening to oral-argument recordings as she hops between hotels and airport waiting rooms.
On Wednesday, August 7, I argued a voting rights case in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The argument had initially been scheduled to be held in New Orleans on July 12, but was canceled because of a hurricane. The argument was rescheduled for Houston on a day I was supposed to be on vacation — in Europe! Needless to say, I had to rearrange my vacation schedule, changing my flights to move up the vacation by a few days to accommodate the new argument date.
in the last year or so, and I’ve probably listened to hundreds of oral-argument recordings on an elliptical.My colleague Jaci comes to my hotel room to go over a few unsettled questions. It’s amazing sometimes how hard it can be to decide on the right answer to an expected question, but I’m frequently arguing about unsettled questions of law, so there’s not always an easy answer.
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