Posted on 10/04/2018 7:05:19 PM PDT by reaganaut1
At last count more than 1,700 law professors have signed an open letter complaining that Judge Brett Kavanaugh “displayed a lack of judicial temperament” in responding to uncorroborated sexual assault accusations against him. In his 12 years on the federal bench, Judge Kavanaugh has produced ample evidence of his judicial temperament. If anyone’s temperament should be of concern to these professors, it’s that of their students, enthralled by identity politics and victim ideology.
Immediately after President Trump nominated Judge Kavanaugh in July, hundreds of Yale law students, alumni and faculty signed a petition claiming the nomination presented an “emergency . . . for our safety.” When Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations became public in September, Yale law students convened a town hall to combat a “culture” on campus “that privileges power and prestige over safety and wellness, [and] that precludes many of us from flourishing in this space.”
When the New Yorker published its own uncorroborated account of lewd conduct purportedly committed by Mr. Kavanaugh as a Yale freshman, Yale law-school alumnae organized an open letter supporting “all women who have faced sexual assault, not only at Yale, but across the country.” Thirty-one Yale law professors canceled classes to facilitate student protests against Judge Kavanaugh, both in New Haven and on Capitol Hill. The Office of Student Affairs put out a plate of cookies to let students “know we are thinking of you.”
Not to be outdone, Harvard law students walked out of their classes the day after the New Yorker article appeared, wearing pink buttons declaring “I Believe Christine Blasey Ford.” America must “stand by these survivors,” the president of the Harvard Black Law Students Association told the crowd. The dean of students announced, “We are supporting our students as they grapple with these issues.”
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Family Law is already dominated by woman lawyers and judges, from what I can tell from afar. And it’s a disaster for our country.
A perfect example of why there is nothing lower and dumber than Ivy League law professors .... even lower than the Bill Maher that you scrape off your boots.
Someone wrote a blog that was posted here that contained some neat phrasing. It was along the line of "They copy one another, signalling their virtue, like fireflies in the night."
Seems fitting here. Perhaps, in addition to "snowflakes", we should call them "fireflies".
#3. 1700 law professors and their half-assed, anti-Constitution students should be made to repeat the following 1700 times.
“WE BELIEVED TAWANA BRAWLEY”. “WE BELIEVED AL SHARPTON”
‘WE BELIEVED BILL CLINTON WHEN HE SAID THAT HE DIDN’T HAVE SEX WITH ‘THAT WOMAN’”
‘WE BELIEVED HILLARY WHEN SHE SAID THAT A VIDEOTAPE STARTED THE BENGHAZI ATTACKS THAT KILLED 4 AMERICANS AND WOUNDED SEVERAL DOZEN MORE’
‘WE BELIEVE IN STUPIDITY AND WILL CONTINUE TO PROVE IT’
The leftist education-industrial complex is a threat to the Republic, and yet we continue to feed it with massive spending and massive debt.
That must change.
wait, what? you want SCOTUS judges to each represent a certain region? I thought SCOTUS was supposed to represent the Constitution, as written, word for word? Am I misunderstanding?
Good news is this is 1,700 would-be lefty lawyers that just disqualified themselves from any ambition of serving ton he High Court.
......”1,700 law ‘professors’.......
Which doesn’t mean squat. Self deluded Elites trying to be significant again. Plan #B if the three former Yale relics couldn’t sell their story.
......”1,700 law ‘professors’.......
Which doesn’t mean squat. Self deluded Elites trying to be significant again. Plan #B if the three former Yale relics couldn’t sell their story.
Strong statement and correct!
Law Professors - “Those who can’t do, teach . . “
actually a very important thread. This is the “legacy” of the 60’s radicals and is the means by which they intend to overthrow the USA in the coming 30 years
interesting that these law students can get federally guaranteed student loans to institutions essentially breeding sedition
I would think someone whose Constitutional, God-given rights are violated by one of their grads-or a court or federal circuit populated by their grads, would have recourse
Or any laws cool whatsoever. Appoint nonlawyers.
1,700 law professors who are overpaid sexual predator propagandists preyng on your sons and daughters
This is when Grassley should have introduced a Bill De-Certifying EVERY Law School these “professor’s” worked at that signed on to this Letter denying the God Given Rights protected by the US Constitution.
This stuff certainly calls into question whether these law schools deserve their vaunted reputations.
There’s absolutely nothing elite about them. They run in incestuous circles where they pat each other on the back, milk their clients for billable hours and make backroom deals, where they make all the money and their clients get screwed. They vote for each other in things like FindLaw.com and list like, Super Lawyers. And are friends with all the other lawyers, prosecutors and judges. Nothing but kabuki theater.
Anyone that has gone thru the system, whether it be the civil or criminal side, is merely a puppet unless you have some serious money and the lawyer(s) know that you’ll be a return customer. They’re all like the lawyer in Pretty Woman, the character that George Costanza plays. Nothing but shady, scumbags.
“I thought SCOTUS was supposed to represent the Constitution, as written, word for word?”
Well of course.
The theory is that we get the best people for the job.
The reality is that we get a subset of people who live near the court and interact politically with the DC in crowd.
So their views are distorted by the trendy outlook of DC and NYC, and the law schools in that region.
Are property rights a big discussion in NY? Not like they are in the West, where the citizenry is confronted with a fedgov owning and controlling 1/3 to 1/2 the land mass.
Is Immigration and citizenship a big deal to people from suburbuan Virginia, as opposed to people in the Southwest and of course NYC where mass immigration has utterly changed the demography and politics of those places? Not until lately, although now even suburban VA and other places are starting to look like urban Brazil.
The court as it sits now has no white anglo saxon Protestant on it. The last one was Powell. In 220 years, that has never happened. It’s a court FOUNDED by Protestants, and yet not one somehow manages to qualify? How’d that happen?
There’s multiple factors but one way to guarantee that the court reflects the general outlook of the populace is to broaden the geographic and ideological pool in a decisive way. So the selection would be from each Federal district and hopefully the one superstar from those districts that would be appointed.
Otherwise we end up with 8 Ruth Ginsburg’s and 1 Sotomayor. All from Manhattan, and all with BA’s from Swarthmore and JD’s from Hahvahd or Yale.
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