I am the grandson and son of lawyers. They were not renegades, they were patent attorneys. I am the brother of another patent attorney -- not so sure about him! :-) I am the uncle and cousin of patent attorneys, but I hardly ever hear from them so it doesn't matter. And, I am the relative of a renegade who works within the judicial branch and who belabors me with such withering arguments as, the Constitution needs to evolve because, see, in the original language, slaves counted as 3/5 of a person. (For this they go to law school?) (The moral retort to this is that slaves, in the eyes of God, are 5/5 of a person but lawyers seldom rise above 2/5 of a person.)
I can prove that this particular relative is a renegade as follows. Both he and Ann Coulter went through a hush-hush conservative school in Washington, D.C. My relative was not one little bit improved by it, whereas Ann learned enough vitriol to keep us all happy for years and years.
I was fascinated by patent law when I was in school. But I got dragged off in the direction of constitutional law, and never got back to anything else.
What is the "hush-hush conservative school" that you are referring to?
As a writer myself, I can assure you that no one learns the ability to write with Ann Coulter's spectacular level of vitriol. That skill is either home grown or doesn't exist at all.
John / Billybob