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U.S. Military: 8 Elite Law Schools: 0 (How did so many professors misunderstand the law?)
The Weekly Standard ^ | March 20, 2006 | Peter Berkowitz

Posted on 03/12/2006 3:14:02 PM PST by RWR8189

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To: chesley
unfortunate attitude about immigration

He and so many others are totally out of tune with the rest of the country on immigration.

This next presidential election may turn on that issue. I sue hope the Repulicans will listen to thier constituents. Otherwise they will become ex-constituents. We can't afford this to go on any longer.

21 posted on 03/12/2006 4:09:59 PM PST by capt. norm (Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue)
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To: SAMS
OK, that was too long to read, anybody got the Cliff notes?

Liberal law profs suck is an excellent summary.

22 posted on 03/12/2006 4:13:13 PM PST by edsheppa
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To: edsheppa

Looks too smart for me. He reminds me that even at the end of WW2, secretaries at Krup were churning out memos and filing papers as the world fell apart all around them. Seth is a good google.

23 posted on 03/12/2006 4:20:25 PM PST by Thebaddog (Dogs are your only friends.)
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To: RWR8189

They did not "misunderstand." They just don't care.


24 posted on 03/12/2006 4:22:01 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: SAMS
OK, that was too long to read, anybody got the Cliff notes?
  1. The government went to court to enforce the Solomon Amendment, which requires that colleges receiving federal funds must allow US military recruiters to attempt to recruit its students on the same basis as it allows other potential employers to attempt to recruit its students.

  2. Dozens of US colleges and universities, notably including Harvard and Yale, filed briefs defending the conceit that the colleges had the right to sit in judgement of the military and deny its recruiters equal access on the basis that the colleges reject a particular personnel policy which the military (under Congressional mandate) enforces. These institutions teach law, and some of their most prestigious professors (including, for example, Lawrence Tribe) made those arguments. Most of the highest-regarded law schools in the country committed themselves to these arguments.

  3. In a unanimous ruling with no dissents and no concurring opinions, SCOTUS laughed their arguments out of court. It ruled that since the Constitution requires the president to raise an army and a navy, not only could the government withhold federal funds from colleges which hindered his efforts at recruitment (as the Solomon Amendment requires), but that Congress has the authority to require colleges to give equal access to military recruiters without regard to whether or not any given college receives federal funds.

  4. The point is not merely that the colleges lost the argument but that the law schools disgraced themselves by even raising the issue at all. Sort of like Bill Clinton disgraced himself by appearing in court to dispute the claim that he was on the make. Clinton's only honorable course was to settle the case out of court; as POTUS he had no business even going into the courtroom hoping that the judge might wrongly decide in his favor.

25 posted on 03/12/2006 4:25:51 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: RWR8189
Another friend of the court brief was signed by 42 members of the Yale Law School Faculty, including Harold Hongju Koh, dean and professor of law....

The dean also testified to the Senate regarding the NSA surveillance program. I'm sure his comments there were just as devoid of legal reasoning.

26 posted on 03/12/2006 4:32:08 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: RWR8189
The losing party, the Forum for Academic and Individual Rights (FAIR), is an association of 36 law schools and law faculty, only 24 of which are willing to be named publicly.

BWaaaaaaa, HAAAaaaaa, Haaaaaa, haaaaaaa....

The little liberal morons are so proud of their anti-US values that they refuse to let anyone know who they are! You've got to love liberalism!...

27 posted on 03/12/2006 4:42:58 PM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Thanks Cliff!


28 posted on 03/12/2006 4:44:52 PM PST by SAMS (Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: RWR8189

It also revealed the left belief that everything is political. There is no right and wrong, there is no true interpretation of the constitution - only a political battle.

It also revealed that this position is not just that of politicos and dummies - the Clinton events revelaed that - but it is also the position of the supposed intellectuals of the left.

We need to face these facts. These guys might not sell their mother, but certainly wouldn't mind selling yours, for their leftist political beliefs.

We need to appreciate the degree to which they will fight for their sub-human cause.


29 posted on 03/12/2006 4:53:59 PM PST by Mr. Rational
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To: chesley

The ONLY thing?....Oh, Lordy, you must have slept through the Reagan years, or been born too late. Yes, him unfortunate attitude about immigration is nasty, but him attitudes about spending, drilling, vetoes and many other issues leave him FAR short of Reagan.


30 posted on 03/12/2006 5:12:07 PM PST by diogenes ghost
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To: JAWs

brlr


31 posted on 03/12/2006 5:26:51 PM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitor)
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To: FreePaul

Where do you think "Judicial Activism" comes from. It comes from the 85% of lawyers who are liberal and donate to the Democrat Party.


32 posted on 03/12/2006 6:01:20 PM PST by gunnedah
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To: RWR8189

It should cover all Federal money....Pell grants,etc.


33 posted on 03/12/2006 6:49:38 PM PST by HP8753 (My cat loves watching "Girls Gone Wild")
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To: Juan Medén

It shows that the vast majority of "leading law professors" and supposedly prestigious law schools no longer care at all about what the laws or the US Constitution actually say - everything is politics to these charlatans, it's only a question of how to present their sophistical "arguments" in rhetoric that will be persuasive to fellow leftist bozos.

Let's hope that Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas enjoy long and healthy careers on the SCOTUS, hopefully joined soon by at least one or two more "originalist" justices who can actually read and understand straightforward written English!!!


34 posted on 03/12/2006 8:11:05 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
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To: RWR8189; All

The professors (liberals) missed what the law said - because it didn't fit their agenda. This answer was way too easy.


35 posted on 03/12/2006 9:34:19 PM PST by CyberAnt (Democrats/Old Media: "controversy, crap and confusion" -- Amen!)
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To: RWR8189

Her Heinous is deeply saddened.


36 posted on 03/12/2006 9:44:48 PM PST by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: martin_fierro
Yes he does.

:)

37 posted on 03/12/2006 9:46:48 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: The Fop

If the Armed Forces were a corporation, they would be praised for their "affirmative action." OR rather, for the numbers of those from minority groups whom they "hire."


38 posted on 03/13/2006 4:50:45 AM PST by moog
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To: capt. norm

No joke.


39 posted on 03/13/2006 5:51:00 AM PST by chesley (Liberals...what's not to loathe?)
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To: diogenes ghost
Well, Reagan was a great President, and a great man. But he didn't have a Republican Congress, and a (soon to be) conservative Supreme Court to work with. He clearly saw the dangers of Communism, but failed to recognize the dangers of Islam. Of course, we all did. He also failed to recognize the dangers of unbridled immigration.

Reagan was, I think, a much more principled conservative than is Bush. On the other hand, Bush responded magnificently to 9/11 and the threat of Islam. Bush has the resources at his disposal to be great.

To his credit, Bush has two superb nominations to the Supreme Court. Reagan gave us O'Conner. To his credit he has done the right thing in the fight against Islam, although if he would call it by its proper name he would have done better. If to his credit could also be added a halt to immigration, deportation of illegals here, a border fence, an end to bilingual education, and the beginnings of assimilation of the legals that are here, this would, IMO, outweigh his other shortcomings. Which I agree are serious.
40 posted on 03/13/2006 6:00:48 AM PST by chesley (Liberals...what's not to loathe?)
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