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More than 1,100 law school professors nationwide oppose Sessions's nomination as attorney general
Washington Post ^ | January 3, 2016 | Sari Horwitz

Posted on 01/03/2017 1:37:04 PM PST by Zakeet

A group of more than 1,100 law school professors from across the country is sending a letter to Congress on Tuesday urging the Senate to reject the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) for attorney general.

The letter, signed by professors from 170 law schools in 48 states, is also scheduled to run as a full-page newspaper ad aimed at members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will be holding confirmation hearings for Sessions on Jan. 10-11.

"We are convinced that Jeff Sessions will not fairly enforce our nation's laws and promote justice and equality in the United States," states the letter, signed by prominent legal scholars including Laurence H. Tribe of Harvard Law School, Geoffrey R. Stone of the University of Chicago Law School, Pamela S. Karlan of Stanford Law School and Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of California, Irvine School of Law.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attorneygeneral; education; protest; sessions
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To: Zakeet
More than 1,100 law school professors nationwide oppose Sessions's nomination as attorney general

Let's see, tenured liberal theoreticians vs. those who make practical applications of the law dealing with bad guys every day?

National Sheriffs’ Association Supports Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General

81 posted on 01/03/2017 2:50:09 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
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To: VideoDoctor

Does this fall into the “lamentations of their women” category?


82 posted on 01/03/2017 2:51:16 PM PST by misanthrope (Liberalism; it is not unthinking ignorance, it is malignant evil.)
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To: misanthrope
Does this fall into the “lamentations of their women” category?

LOLOL! Absolutely spot on!

83 posted on 01/03/2017 2:53:57 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: CodeToad
Those WERE the baked potatoes.
84 posted on 01/03/2017 2:57:38 PM PST by Lee Enfield (I identify as rich, cut me a check.)
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To: Innovative
So who cares? They can vote in elections, but have no special rights.

This action gives the leftist MSM anti-Sessions grist for their mills. Like self-created talking points. This action will be trumpeted far and wide, as you might expect. This is just coordination of the leftists across the sectors of society which they control, so as to take down Trump and his appointees.

85 posted on 01/03/2017 3:07:13 PM PST by bkopto
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To: Sooth2222

Wow, thanks for the math there. Know how many ambulances there are?


86 posted on 01/03/2017 3:08:21 PM PST by pfflier
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To: Lee Enfield

“Those WERE the baked potatoes. “

ROFL! Nice!


87 posted on 01/03/2017 3:12:46 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Zakeet

Carol Swain of Vanderbilt Law is for Sessions. That’s good enough for me.


88 posted on 01/03/2017 3:14:37 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Zakeet

This tells us all we need to know about law schools in this country and why the ABA is such a mess of political cowardice.


89 posted on 01/03/2017 3:15:29 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Zakeet
Did these “professors” write to Congress when Obambi nominated Holder and then Lynch?? I didn't think so.
Those two DID NOT enforce the laws.

The key word in the letter was “equality.” Nowhere in the oaths of office is there the word equality. It is a word that is the key to socialistic change desired by the left.

90 posted on 01/03/2017 3:15:50 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“.........more than 1,100 law school professors oppose Sessions”?.......

All the more reason to swear him in. There needs to be some “real” justice in this country and starting with those professors would be a perfect place to start. Before those idiots came on the scene, the U.S. was a country of laws. Those idiots twisted things around to fit their own agendas and brainwashed their students to think they were right.


91 posted on 01/03/2017 3:18:41 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: AU72
Yep...all the more reason.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

92 posted on 01/03/2017 3:18:56 PM PST by wku man (Just One Gun, the latest from 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uFqQenIU4)
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To: Zakeet
FLASH..!! More than 1,100 Elite, Globalist, Commie law school professors nationwide oppose Sessions's nomination as attorney general..

Who cares......

93 posted on 01/03/2017 3:25:40 PM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Zakeet

“More than 1,100 law school professors nationwide oppose Sessions’s nomination as attorney general”


Please note that not a single one of them was elected to be the President of the United States...so they get to have exactly zero influence over this matter.

Much to my chagrin, after entering law school and the legal profession, I have found that most lawyers (ESPECIALLY the academics) are a bunch of libs. So much for logical reasoning tests being in any way determinative of intelligence.


94 posted on 01/03/2017 3:42:14 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Zakeet

This is just a propaganda piece by the Washington Post. Ignore it.


95 posted on 01/03/2017 3:42:16 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (EEe)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Tribe thought that the Massachusetts Democrat Party “15% Rule,” which failed in Committee in the Massachusetts legislature, was a “stupid rule” until he found that an attack on it was underway which would have nullified Ted Kennedy’s 1982 nomination, at which point, in the face of the “Times, Places, and Manners” clause in the Constitution, he completely flip-flopped in the hopes that Kennedy would appoint him to the SCOTUS.


96 posted on 01/03/2017 3:46:36 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Zakeet

In 2008, 8 years ago, there were over 17,000 law schools, not professors, law schools in the US. The size of this contingency of “professors” that sent this information in is smaller than the custodial staff at 1/10th of them. Big deal.

red


97 posted on 01/03/2017 3:57:24 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: Zakeet

The best endorsements are always unsolicited! Pres Trump is right over the target! Fire away!


98 posted on 01/03/2017 3:58:49 PM PST by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: Redwood71

Are you sure that’s like 340 law schools per state. If I include DC, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa & the Marianas Trust territories that’s still over 300 per locale.


99 posted on 01/03/2017 4:04:06 PM PST by Reily
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To: Mercat

The last conservative at my law school retired in 1996 at age seventy. A huge public supporter of Justice Rehnquist and critic of the leftward swing of the profession. None like that there now.


100 posted on 01/03/2017 4:05:24 PM PST by amihow
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