Noted: Few would quibble that Posner has sarcasm down to an art. But the highly respected judge, who was appointed to the court by Republican President Ronald Reagan, is not “a left-wing liberal,” says Howard Schweber, a political scientist and constitutional scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison. “He is a leading light among conservative intellectuals.” Moreover, “he?s probably the leading intellectual light among currently serving judges, maybe including the United States Supreme Court.”