SCOTUSblog on camera: Edward Blum (Part five)

Choosing cases and the strategies, tactics, and teams behind cases aimed at the Court; theluxury of building cases by thinking backwards from the Supreme Court to a trial court; the importance of taking intermediate steps, listening to counsel, and having a Supreme Court lawyer at trial; what Heman Sweatt and Abigail Fisher have in common; and what to do now.

In this five-part interview, Edward BlumVisiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Founder and President of the Project on Fair Representationdiscusses hisbackground, running for Congress,and moving from public finance to political advocacy to Supreme Court litigation; the meeting of race, ethnicity and religion; the desire tomake big law and how to read Supreme Court signals; and success building cases from the ground upfromBush v. Vera,NAMUDNOv. Holder,andShelby County v. HoldertoFisher v. University of Texas at Austinand beyondwithpeople of good will.