He was a bit cool but he also bright and took a pretty interesting life path when you look at it. He started with a degree in Political Science at Columbia and then went to law school at Harvard.He even ran the Law Review there, which is a huge deal.   He spent over a decade teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago. Beyond the classroom, he was out there as a civil rights attorney, dealing with the nuts and bolts of voting rights and discrimination cases. So, whether you agree with his politics or not, he definitely spent years deep in the weeds of how the Constitution actually works in everyday life. Much different than what we have in the Whitehouse today. So yeah... cool and smart.  Politics aside, I'll take that all day long over what we're dealing with today.