Mike Ramirez rules.
Posted on 03/12/2006 3:14:02 PM PST by RWR8189
Another example of what happens to people who "FEEL" rather then "THINK" their politics.
Wishful thinking ususally clouds your judgement. The law profs have the same problem with the 2nd Amendment as the 1st. It really doesn't mean what they wish it meant. Boo Hoo.
HA! Reaping Havoc EVERYWHERE TODAY!
shouldn't you be reading some posts, Mr Grim!???
(ducking and running......)
Did they misunderstand the law or did they just try to subvert it for their own ends? These "professors" have not been teaching law as it is. They have been teaching and advocating law as they want it to be. For too long they have been able to push their brand of law with the aid of judges who were sympathetic to their causes.
Many of them are so used to having their way they forget they are there to teach.
Mike Ramirez rules.
OK, that was too long to read, anybody got the Cliff notes?
Perfectly simple. Over the past 40 years or more, these elite professors have persuaded themselves that the law means whatever they want it to mean.
In fact this kind of approach, called "critical legal theory" at Harvard (although they would give a more "nuanced" explanation of what that means), goes all the way back to Oliver Wendell Holmes, the first Justice to argue that the law means whatever we want to to mean.
"We" being the elite and privileged and powerful, who run such places as Harvard and Yale Law schools. Similarly "we" in the journalism business means people who went to the Columbia School of Journalism or work for the New York Times.
And people were complaining that Roberts is an elitist.
Today's law schools have become radicalized...they no longer know or teach "The Law" so much as they teach ideology.
...which means that current law schools students are receiving a lousy legal education.
I hear that the left wingers will respond by posting all sorts of literature about how discriminatory the US Armed Forces are. I hope the College Republicans will post counter-literature about how these left wingers don't give a damn about the homophobia that exists in non-Western nations.
It appears that if some young kid is thinking of joining the military, these left wing academics would try to convince the kid not to join because of "don't ask, don't tell". So that means the left wing academics think that NOBODY should join the military, which means that we wouldn't have a military. Why do I get the feeling that they would feel this way regardless of "don't ask, don't tell"?
Exactly... that is why they are freaking out about the last two Presidential elections. Say what you will about George Bush, but at least he is making a difference in the long term direction of the courts.
If George W. Bush had never done another thing, the fact that he got Roberts and Alito on the supreme court puts him right under Reagan in my book.
I know sometimes we get disappointed in what's happening...and then later we find out President Bush just played "rope-a-dope" on the liberals and they fell for it.
I think he'll be smiling when all the new info from Saddam's documents finally comes out.
If they don't comply immediately, federal funding should be cut off immediately. The universities should also pay back money collected from us taxpayers in the past, during the periods of non-compliance.
What this article reveals is the deep cynicism of the leaders of American law faculties with respect to the law. Clearly, in this article, we see how the leading minds of our legal academies see the law as a blunt force weapon to bludgeon the nation into submission to their wacky liberal notions. A pox on their campuses.
The government will still take Republicans' tax money so that these laws schools can take a big crap on Republicans in the class room.
If anything it should be Republicans bringing suit against these schools for forcing Republicans to fund anti-Republican speech.
Forget the legislative branch, and what the people want their representatives to do. All hail the black robed priests and their agenda! /sarcasm
How did so many professors misunderstand the law?
The only thing that keeps from being even a better (if not greater) President than Reagan is him unfortunate attitude about immigration. IMO
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