Congress is insufficiently air conditioned

So I spent most of yesterday sitting in the Rayburn Congressional office building listening to the partner that I'm working for this summer lecture the 10 members of the House Committee on Government Reform who showed up to hear him talk. It was a pretty impressive display, one that left the poor sap from the Cato Institute (who had the misfortune to be on the same panel as my boss) looking pretty stupid.

The topic was the recent Supreme Court decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, which frankly was poorly thought out and generally foolish, which is not something that one can often get away with saying about the Supreme Court. It is not uncommon to disagree with the Supreme Court, since that is mostly a question of one well-reasoned interpretation of the law beating out another well-reasoned interpretation. It is something entirely different to accuse the Court of not thinking things through and basing their opinion on flawed legal reasoning.

Hrm, I will explain this in some depth a little later. For now, just smile and nod and be happy that I am enjoying my job. :-)