CONFLICT OF LAWS, TRANS EDITION

Powerline ^ | 13 July 2022 | Scott Johnson

[Rummyfan]

The late Herbert Stein was the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon and the author of Stein’s Law: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” I wonder if Stein’s Law applies to the madness that has overtaken the Democratic Party, the party’s media adjunct, the United States military, and just about every major American institution. Stein’s Law seems to be running up against (John) O’Sullivan’s First Law: “All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.”

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on abortion access and the law. According to C-SPAN, the hearing “examine[d] the legal concerns in the country after a recent Supreme Court decision overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion.” C-SPAN has posted video of the hearing in its entirety here.

Senator Hawley took a turn questioning Berkeley Law Professor Khiara Bridges (video below). Professor Bridges must have been summoned by the Democrats who ran the hearing and they must think she is somehow helpful to them. Her Berkeley profile lists six areas of expertise, but the lady is testing the reality principle. See Abigail Anthony’s NR story with its useful transcript of the exchange in the clip below. Ben Shapiro devotes a column to the exchange in “Woke Academic Gobbledygook Makes You Rich and Famous.” FOX News has posted a handy round-up of reactions here.

[JJBookman]

LGBT = NWO religion

[Rummyfan]

Bridges profile:

Khiara M. Bridges is a professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law. She has written many articles concerning race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three. Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the California Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review, among others. She is also the author of three books: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011), The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017), and Critical Race Theory: A Primer (2019). She is a coeditor of a reproductive justice book series that is published under the imprint of the University of California Press.

She graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. While in law school, she was a teaching assistant for the former dean, David Leebron (Torts), as well as for the late E. Allan Farnsworth (Contracts). She was a member of the Columbia Law Review and a Kent Scholar. She speaks fluent Spanish and basic Arabic, and she is a classically trained ballet dancer.

A woman with all these so-called degrees, yet I believe she is nothing but a well-spoken idiot.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Someone once said “It takes an intellectual to say something THAT stupid.”