Tom Goldstein and the perils of conflict-plagued commentary

Back in April, I wrote in detail about the glaring conflict infecting the Supreme Court nominee analysis of SCOTUSblog's Tom Goldstein.  Goldstein's lucrative partnership at Akin, Gump -- as has been true for his whole career -- depends almost exclusively on aggressively promoting himself as a specialist in Supreme Court litigation (NBC is even developing a new entertainment show based on his career called "Tommy Supreme").  Therefore, quite unsurprisingly, he invariably takes the lead role i...