It is an impressive show of public service when twelve prominent and distinguished current and former law professors of well-respected schools are able to amass their collective wisdom in the course of only several days to provide their legal expertise to the Court on behalf of a criminal defendant. The Court trusts that this is a reflection of these eminent academics’ willingness in the future to step to the plate and provide like assistance in cases involving any of the numerous litigants, both in this Court and throughout the courts of our nation, who lack the financial means to fully and properly articulate the merits of their legal positions even in instances where failure to do so could result in monetary penalties, incarceration, or worse. The Court will certainly not hesitate to call for such assistance from these luminaries, as necessary in the interests of justice and equity, whenever similar questions arise in the cases that come before it. ~Judge Reggie Walton on the amicus brief of Bork, Dershowitz, et al.

The amicus curiae brief itself is quite amusing.  We are supposed to believe that these famous law professors bestirred themselves to express their deep, abiding concern about the constitutionality of Patrick Fitzgerald’s appointment as special counsel.  You see, even though the previous AG assigned this investigation to him and the AG could remove him at any time for any reason, these esteemed worthies thought it worth everyone’s time to query whether Fitzgerald was an “inferior officer.”  Yeah. 

Their zealous devotion to the letter of the Constitution is most impressive.  One wonders where all this zeal was hiding for the last six years.