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       It was at the University of Chicago that I earned my J.D.  I was an enthusiastic student of future Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  I assisted him with founding the revisionist Federalist Society, whose teachings have had a profound effect on the Court today. I was a member of the student division of the Society and, in later years, a member of the lawyer division, which now includes 70,000 practicing attorneys. That Society has grown to become the most influential legal organization in the U.S.  It vetted the lists of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees for recent Republican Presidents.  Forty-three out of the current Chief Executive’s 51 appellate court nominees as of 2020 were current or former members, as are all six members of the Republican majority on the Supreme Court today.  The Federalist Society was the original source of many of the ideas that motivate the Court’s six Republican members who are driving the current constitutional crisis and revolution.  Thus, I studied and worked for years under the most influential member of the Supreme Court in recent times, and I know from the inside the concerns and arguments that are moving the Court. 

          Also, I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Political Philosophy, American History, and Constitutional Law under two great scholars: Herbert Storing and George Anastaplo, the master teachers of American constitutional theory for my generation.  Throughout all our history, there have been only two contending schools of what America means: originally Alexander Hamilton vs. Thomas Jefferson—which became Lincoln vs. the Confederates in the Civil War—which has become Anastaplo vs. Scalia today. 

            Because I have worked and studied with both Anastaplo and Scalia--the leaders of the opposing sides of Constitutional interpretation--I am able to understand the opinions of the Supreme Court in their broad historical and political contexts. To understand why many of the Court’s actions are illegal, unconstitutional, and just plain wrong.  I can explain how they came about and why . . . and can see where they are going. 

          In addition, I earned an M.A. from Columbia University in the School of International and Public Affairs. And I earned a B.A. from Stanford University in Political Science and Government.  I am a life-long student of the Great Books, and a constitutional authority my own right, with Constitutional Law as my legal specialty. As such, I have taught Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence, and American Politics at the law-school and university levels, and have published about the Constitution.  I know the Constitution nearly word for word.  More importantly, I know how to interpret it.

          After law school, I clerked for a conservative judge of the United States District Court in Chicago, so I know how the U.S. courts actually work.  After that, I was a practicing litigator for more than thirty years.  My practice included everything from hotly contested trials to drafting amicus briefs and cert. petitions to the Supreme Court as a member of the Supreme Court Bar.  I know how to read obscure legal documents, and know the Court’s complicated procedures from the point of view of a practitioner. 

          Some of the books, articles, and Supreme Court briefs I have authored and edited are listed below:

1. Original Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed Question (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway). Co-author and Editor. 

2. “Appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States in Opposition to Theft of Homes by the State of Hawaii.” Petition for cert. in Abing v. State of Hawaii.  Published on my LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-l-stone-a78834340/.  Author. 

3. “Amicus Brief Submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States in Opposition to Election Rigging.” Co-author. Published on my LinkedIn page:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-l-stone-a78834340/ .

4. Law and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of George Anastaplo. 2 Vols. (Athens: Ohio University Press).  Author and Editor. 

5. “Review of Commentaries on the Laws of England: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769,” Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 32, No. 3. Author. 

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