The Judicial Conference of the United States, the federal judiciary's policymaking body, authorized the creation of the Supreme Court Advocacy Project during its biannual meeting Tuesday, Geremy Kamens, the federal public defender for the Eastern District of Virginia, told Law360. The project, which will initially be supported by Kamens' office, will eventually become its own entity that will provide resources and training materials for public defenders and court-appointed attorneys representing clients before the high court. ....
About 25 years ago, Kamens and other appellate lawyers and public defenders realized there was a need for a support structure for defense attorneys seeking Supreme Court review, so they developed the all-volunteer organization Defender Supreme Court Resource and Assistance Panel, which would reach out to attorneys in cases where the justices had granted certiorari and help them prepare for oral arguments by running moot courts and providing litigation assistance.
The project announced Tuesday, also known as SCAP, is a more formalized version of the volunteer organization, Kamens said.
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