I always look to see what the left hand is doing!
This isn’t going to end well, is it?
[David Bernstein, April 4, 2007 at 10:14pm] Trackbacks
Profile of Yale Law Dean Harold Koh: The Yale Daily News has what strikes me as a balanced profile of Koh [the first of a two-parter], who is by all accounts a nice guy, a good fundraiser, and beloved by his students, but is also a highly partisan liberal Democrat under whose tenure as dean conservative and libertarian students have felt increasingly uncomfortable, and conservative and libertarian alumni have, at least in some cases (as noted in the Daily News piece) grown increasingly alienated.
The article paraphrases a post I wrote for the VC mentioning that, by contrast to when I was a student, Harvard Law School under Dean Kagan now has a reputation as a far friendlier place than Yale for Federalist Society types, and that Harvard is now much more open-minded than Yale about hiring non-liberals. While I don’t object to the paraphrase, it would have been better form if the Daily News writer had made it clear that he never actually spoke to me, but just cribbed some comments from the VC.
Meanwhile, Professor Bainbridge piles on. Noting that Koh is on everyone’s short list for the Supreme Court in a Democratic administration, Bainbridges predicts that “Koh’s appointment to the SCOTUS would be an unmitigated disaster.”
Would KOH support the right of everyone to have an AK-47 in the house?
Was I sleeping here or since when did we join the I.C.C.? I thought that was one of the good things that Bush did by refusing to put us in with these fools.
There will be protests in the streets!....there is nothing this raving socialist can do to stop it!