If you went to law school, you'd know why there are so many lib lawyers out there. Think college was bad? The professors in law school make college profs look like conservatives (or in the context of law- originalists. "Is the Constitution a living, breathing document?" was the first rhetorical question posed in Con law class.
The sad thing is, a lot of college kids come out of our colleges with that "mind of mush" mindset and eat it up. The funny thing is, the originalist part came to me so naturally and the split among classmates between originalist interpreters and progressive interpreters was on ideological lines.
Of course I used to write my essays like a Marxist, pretty much disregarding the law and writing from a "liberal heart", as I wanted a decent grade and law school has "blind grading."
I became an originalist because the progressives never defined the limits of how much latitude a judge can have to deviate from the law in order to meet a "compelling national need". Without limits, a judge can plunge society into chaos. Look what had happen to our laws and legal system in the last thirty years and the chaos and fear it had created.
When you went to school were they using "disposition" theory in addition to academic performance in determining your grade?
With more and more conservative students and educators trying to break the leftist stranglehold in academia, the left has increasingly adopted "disposition" theory as a stated part of either the curriculum or the pedagogy.
Under the "disposition" theory teachers are told to not only look at the academic performance of the student but also to judge whether or not the student has a commitment to "social justice". At Washington State University, one education student faced punishment when professors decided he was insufficiently “sensitive to community and cultural norms” and that he did not “appreciate and value human diversity.” [Whatever in the hell you want that to mean]
In Rhode Island a student who was taking classes for a degree in social work was repeatedly told by his professors he should quit. At one point he was officially admonished because he refused to join a student-team that he was part of, in a class excercise where they had to officially lobby the Rhode Island state legislature to seek passage of a bill that his professors thought should be passed - a bill the student strongly disagreed with. In the official discussions with him over the issue he was shown the official curriculum standards for his major. And right there in black and white was the "social value" standards written by the Rhode Island professional association of social workers and adopted by the college as part of the requirements of the courses the student was taking. In other words, in black and white school regulations, this student was being told he had to either be a socialist or he could be denied his chosen course of education.