[BenLurkin]

8-0

Pretty impressive win in any case before SCOTUS.

[Hunble]

"The court did not say which argument it liked less. It rejected both, unanimously."

[Balding_Eagle]

Marshalling their collective intellectual firepower and moral outrage,

LOL!

Rush has more 'intellectual firepower' in his little finger than they have collectively.

Seesh, what a bunch of morons.

[1rudeboy]

What's the point of excerpting if you don't even post the punchline?

"High school students can appreciate the difference between speech a school sponsors and speech the school permits because legally required to do so," [Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.] wrote. "Surely students have not lost that ability by the time they get to law school."

[jazusamo]

"The vote was 8-to-0 against them — a shutout, a rout, a humiliation."

It just doesn't get any better than that!

[USNBandit]

a crucial test for gay rights and free speech.

Actually it was neither. It was a test of a law passed by Congress.

It has very little to do with gay rights. The schools in question would be trying to keep military recruiters off campus regardless of the DOD homosexual policy.

Last time I checked there isn't any part of the Constitution guaranteeing federal funding for colleges. When the federal government cares to hand out funding they can set policies as they see fit.

[frankjr]

""Of them, the only one that seems utterly implausible is that three dozen law schools, 900 law professors, the court of appeals, and a dozen top law firms are all inept at connecting the dots of Supreme Court precedents.""

Utterly implausible? Guess again. The law schools and professors hate the military, period. And the dozen top law firms will say anything you want them to...for a fee.

[martin_fierro]

But the law professors did not produce so much as a sympathetic word from liberal justices like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David H. Souter and John Paul Stevens. (The newest justice, Samuel A. Alito Jr., did not participate.)

I'm not altogether convinced that RBG participated, wither.

[fish hawk]

I laughed out loud the other day when Bill O'Reilly said that the Law Students at Harvard and Yale etc. should ask for their money back when their own teachers can't get it together on the law.

[sure_fine]

I bet I got a zit on my ass more important than Yale is now

[Southack]

Sadly, the same "top law professors" who lost 8 to 0 are still employed...attempting to "educate" young minds about how our Law works.

The reality is that the radicalized law schools of today simply don't understand "The Law."

What they understand is ideology...which is quite different from the law (i.e. written statute) itself.

[connectthedots]

On Monday, the best minds in the legal business struck out.

Best minds? I don't think so.

[righttackle44]

"In patient cadences, the kind you use in addressing a slightly dull child, the chief justice explained that law students would not assume that their schools supported the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy if they saw military recruiters on campus."

Carefully tranlated for those who ordinarily read and applaud the New York Times, this means "The adults are back in charge at the U.S. Supreme Court."

[jas3]

Peter H. Schuck, a Yale law professor who thought the law schools' legal position was misguided, said that many professors were so indignant about the military's treatment of gay men and women and so scornful of the military itself that their judgment became clouded. "There is often a feeling that if something is morally wrong it must be legally wrong and that clever arguments can bring those two things into alignment," Professor Schuck said.

Wait....you mean to tell me that there are professors in law school who DON'T believe that the Living Constitution allows EVERY moral (as defined by leftie pinko professors) issue to be solved via the Supreme Court? What good have all these battles been if we can't even force the outcomes we want regardless of the law?? I mean for Pete's sake.

Next thing you know it will turn out that the Constitution doesn't say quote All women worldwide are entitled to abortion on-demand by US taxpayers unquote.

jas3

[Aarchaeus]

the best minds in the legal business...

So, the legal business is really that hard up for intellectual capacity?

[bvw]

In physics lab one year, I brought in a six string guitar and a twelve string and fed their sound into a frequency analyzer. I found that if enough of the strings were in tune they'd bring the ones that weren't into tune -- if the chord was played loud enough.

Looks like we've tuned up a few of the strings on that court and replaced at least one loose tuning peg with one that holds its tension.

[AmishDude]

the best minds in the legal business

This, by the way, is a textbook definition of damning with faint praise.

[GretchenM]

if the result was not embarrassing enough, there was also the tone of the court's unanimous decision, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. In patient cadences, the kind you use in addressing a slightly dull child, the chief justice explained ...

I love it.

[truth_seeker]

Lesson:

You get to be one of these psuedo-intellectual professor types NOT on the basis of your law knowledge. It is political, plain and simple.

The USSC votes 8 to 0 against. Tells me the SC considered the law, not the politics.

Give credit where it is due, to even the liberal justices, who saw nothing in the law to justify the position of the whacked professors.

Must be a blow to one's intellectual pride to get slapped downso thoroughly.

[185JHP]

Bravissimo. And "andante espresivo."