Nothing shakes one's confidence like being completely and utterly wrong

I like my Admin prof. He gives classic issue-spotter exams and makes old exams available and even provides a short sketch of model answers -- they're not exhaustive, but they give you an idea of what he was expecting to see in the answers. It's a really helpful study tool for me.

Except when it induces panic.

How I spent the last hour of my life.

Open up a new practice exam question, sketch out an answer in about 30 minutes, feel pretty good about it. Non-delegation, intelligible principle, scope of review, a little bicameralism and presentment, a little Scalia humor for good measure (assessing whether commission described is "junior varsity congress"*).

Then hmmm . . . there are some sticking points in the analysis . . . there seems to be insufficient info. to come to a reasoned conclusion about some of these issues . . . and maybe I should have taken a harder look at standing instead of jumping straight to the delegation stuff . . . ah well, let's see the damage.

Open exam answer file.

WHAT THE HELL??????

This was 100% a justiciability question????

Standing, ripeness, finality, legal effects test . . .

That was it.

My issue-spotting radar is completely broken.

Then again, I am probably better at Admin than I am at taking a hiatus.

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* See Mistretta v U.S. (Scalia dissenting, naturally)