Legal Questions

The Democratic National Convention started yesterday, and already I’ve grown tired of the “where else but in America” mantra — as in “where else but in American can the son of a single mom emerge as the Democratic candidate for president?”  or “Where else but in America can a girl raised on the Southside of Chicago get an Ivy League education?”  Still, when I learned that Lilly Ledbetter, a retired Goodyear worker and petitioner in Ledbetter v. Goodyear will address the convention tonight, I could only ask, “Where else but in America does an ordinary person have the chance to appear before both the Supreme Court and a national party convention?” — an opportunity that not even lawyers as accomplished as Barack Obama or his wife have enjoyed. 

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