She stood before the Supreme Court with a losing case. But she never lost her cool.
As a 35-year-old assistant US solicitor general, Leondra Kruger stood before the US Supreme Court in October 2011 with a religious liberty case that was an outright loser.
The justices immediately pounced on her claim, made on behalf of the Obama administration, that First Amendment protections for religion did not apply to a church school's dismissal of a teacher who held ministerial duties. Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia called the position"extraordinary." Liberal Justice Elena Kagan said it was"amazing.
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