Jesse Choper quoted in San Francisco Appeal, February 26, 2013
“It can’t hurt, but I doubt it’s going to help,” said Jesse Choper, a constitutional law professor and former dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law who teaches an annual course on Supreme Court cases. “Friend-of-the-court briefs ordinarily have virtually no impact at most,” Choper said…. An Obama Administration brief also wouldn’t make much difference to the court’s nine justices. “Everybody knows where he stands. It’s politics.”