My primary career interest is in law, with my end goal being a federal judgeship. Within the past year, I have discovered, and not once doubted, my deep-seated passion in following the Supreme Court of the United States and its justices. Chief among the many personal truths I have discovered through my Court watching is that I relish genuine debate and reasoning. Indeed, the idea of sorting through legal texts and briefs while charged with the responsibility to settle a vigorous legal, and perhaps social, debate appeals greatly to me. This appeal is so great that I have, actually, put myself in the shoes of a judge by reading Court opinions – majorities, concurrences, and dissents – in full and extracting my own verdict. For example, at the
