Hillary Helps Leftist Lawyers Fight Federalist Society

NewsMax.com ^ | 7/31/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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Left-wing lawyers have long been outraged that the Federalist Society dares to support the U.S. Constitution. Now they're organizing into an opposing organization.

The lefties are creating something they call American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, which would more accurately be called Anti-American Anti-Constitution Socialists Against Law and Policy. Sen. Hillary Clinton and leftist Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are scheduled to speak to the group this weekend.

There's even a Janet Reno Dance Party planned.

The organization will copy the Federalist Society in recruiting young members at law schools.

"The conservatives have been shrewder in organizing, and the liberals have woken up," fretted Jamin Raskin, a leftist law professor at American University.

A founder of the leftist group, Walter Dellinger, acting solicitor general in the Clinton administration, admitted, "If you lack ideas and lack intellectual rigor, you're going to end up on the losing side of the great legal debates."

"Imitation is a form of flattery," said Federalist Society member John Baker, a law professor at Louisiana State University. "The Federalist Society should be flattered."

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[sauropod]

;-)

[Endeavor]

""If you lack ideas and lack intellectual rigor"

Apt description of dims.

[Capriole]

How do you join? Their website is seriously down (if I have it right: www.fed-soc.org, right?)

[justshutupandtakeit]

That is the web site and when I hit the join button nothing happens either. But the email to contact them is up so you can have them send you a form or write to the postal address given there.

[Capriole]

Looks like the entire site is up and functioning now. They aren't clear on the membership distinctions, though. Guess I'm "public sector"? I will join if it appears that membership can make a difference. Gee, I wish I were a lawyer! People may hate them, but it seems that a law degree is fundamental to doing anything here in DC. Anything at all. It's sort of assumed that any serious person who is trying to accomplish anything has that training even if they aren't practicing law.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Yeah, I regret not getting a degree in law. It is very important to understand laws. But God so damn boring.