The lawyer has earned rare ovation from Scotus

If you have never heard of Edwin S. Kmedler, this is probably because you are not hanging around the chambers of the Supreme Court. The experienced lawyer presented his 160th case in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday before the High Court to be the last argument of the 79-year-old-an achievement that was recognized by an unusual constant ovation in the courtroom in which the judges of the Supreme Court took part. “It was a rare moment of unanimity and spontaneous joy of all nine judges on the bench” New York Times. “They all beamed.” The long -time Scotus lawyer Kannon Shanmugam adds that the incident was “one of the most electrical moments I have ever seen in the courtroom”.

Before the room broke out in the applause, Chief had covered John Robert’s Kneedler back to the Redner Prize after his last argument, praised him for his “extraordinary care and professionalism” and described the lawyer’s performance as a “record for modern times”. Roberts even noticed the two cases he and Kneler had argued on the same side. “We lost both cases. I am sure it was my fault,” the top judge noticed. According to Bloomberg Law, Kneedler has argued more cases in front of the Supreme Court than any other practicing lawyer. For decades in the office of the Attorney General.

“ED is such a more constant … that it is difficult to imagine the office without imagining it,” says Michael Dreeben, who worked next to each other with Knedler for years at the OSG. “A word that was repeated in EDS oral arguments was ‘helpful’,” writes the prominent Scotus expert William Jay in a contribution about LinkedIn about the presentation style of Kmedler. “In the difficult cases in which he was supposed to argue and the subjects of Indian law to the government of the government, Ed, Ed tried to promote the interests of the United States, his only client -but also tried to help the court because it justified its way to make a decision.”

A judge of the Supreme Court even went into the recording to sing Knedler’s praise. “In all the time I spent in the government, I have never known a finer official” Just. “There is pretty much no legal question that he cannot answer.” Knedler rejected an interview that was found at the beginning of this month when he received an award from his Alma Mater, the University of Virginia, that he was “a career officer” and “not in the press if I can avoid it”. (More stories of the Supreme Court.)