In this role, he and his students have
represented numerous litigants who could not otherwise afford top-
flight counsel. He has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court,
and he obtained a significant victory in the landmark case of Padilla
v. Kentucky, which established a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to
accurate information about deportation before pleading guilty. One of our Supreme Court Justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a personal
letter to Professor Bibas that the Judiciary Committee received, called
him one of the ``very best lawyers presenting cases to the Court.'' It
is kind of nice, if you are considered kind of a strict
constructionist, that you get a letter like that from one of the more
activist members of the Supreme Court. Some of my Democratic colleagues criticize Professor Bibas during his
confirmation hearing for two really isolated events in the long and
illustrious career he has had.
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