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"The Souterian and Rehnquistian Views of Legal Talent"

From a new law review article with that name, by Andy Smarick (Manhattan Institute): During congressional testimony in 1999, the… The post "The Souterian and Rehnquistian Views of Legal Talent" appeared first on Reason.com.

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Who Is Usha Vance? 'Second First Lady' Outshines Melania Trump In Both Fashion And Function

A former Supreme Court clerk and Yale Law graduate, Usha Vance has long been credited with helping shape her husband's intellectual and political direction.

International Business Times UK

Law Scholar Suspended From Yale After AI-Generated Fake News Site Tied Her to Terrorist Organization

An international scholar working at Yale Law School was suspended from her position and temporarily barred from entering the university's campus due to a false report published by an artificial intelligence-powered news website.

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What does JD Vance really believe?

Vance’s great skill is advancement through mimicry – with Trump as his ultimate model

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Vivek Ramaswamy plots his next move, with or without Donald Trump

Vivek Ramaswamy wants to be clear, or clear-ish: He says he doesn’t really know if anyone’s eating cats and dogs over in Springfield, Ohio, 45 minutes from his home in Columbus.

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Is there anything that JD Vance actually believes?

The only thing we can say for sure that JD Vance believes is that he, personally, should have as much power as possible

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JD Vance's Venmo Shows Payment For Donuts And A Network Of Highly-Influential Right Wing Individuals

JD Vance's public Venmo reveals his connections with elites, far-right figures, and more. Experts warn of privacy risks and security threats.

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The Populist GOP and its Yale Law and Harvard Law Leaders

A notable dynamic, and one worth trying to explain.

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JD Vance’s law school roommate calls VP nominee a ‘hypocrite’ who ‘adopted the MAGA mindset wholesale’

Josh McLaurin spoke out against his old roommate because he thought ‘it was a matter of national public concern,’ he told The Independent.

The Independent UK

America’s problem is massive inequality – not ‘woke’ educated elites

Fake populists like Elise Stefanik (Harvard ’06) and Josh Hawley (Yale ’06) attack higher ed to protect corporations and the rich

The Guardian - US

Columbia, the Boycotting Judges, Neutrals, and Secondary Boycotts

The boycott of Columbia graduates by a group of judges led me to the following thoughts (adapted from a post about the 2022 boycott of Yale Law graduates, which was begun by a judge who is also one of the signatories to the Columbia boycott). [A.] Just to make clear…

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Leigh Bardugo, "The Ninth House"

I read this and much enjoyed it some years ago; it's an urban fantasy set at Yale, and I expect that people with some Yale or New Haven experience would enjoy it even more. Indeed, I recommended it to Will Baude, who went to Yale Law, and he just let…

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Podcast Episodes on Textualism

Last week I appeared in two podcast episodes that could be of interest, especially to those interested in statutory interpretation. One was as a guest of Yale Law Professors David Schleicher and Samuel Moyn on "The Legal Theory Podcast: Digging A Hole," where I was very skeptically interrogated about unwritten…

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'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua writes first novel, 'The Golden Gate'

Amy Chua, the Yale Law School professor and author sometimes known as “Tiger Mom,” has written her first novel

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Yale Law School Program with Kristin Waggoner (ADF), Nadine Strossen (ex-ACLU), and Robert Post (Former Dean)

seems to have gone very well.

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Ivy-educated Thomas and Sotomayor divide on affirmative action

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas overcame humble beginnings and racial discrimination before earning elite educations, but they bring very different views about race-conscious college admissions to the Supreme Court as it weighs affirmative action challenges.

Salon

The Oath Keepers' "cheat code" defense

Stewart Rhodes all but promised his followers he had "one neat trick" to evade criminal charges for sedition

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Noah Feldman: There's a lot of Harvard and Yale on the Supreme Court. And that's OK

Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices went to Harvard or Yale law schools. So did nearly a fifth of the federal judiciary. This rankles some politicians, watchdog groups and others who see it as an outrageous manifestation of elitism that needs to be changed, given how much power this…

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Trump’s worst toadies hold degrees from Harvard and Yale. Did they learn anything?

Politicians educated at some of the US’s most elite universities are spreading conspiracy theories that they surely know are untrue. What happened to ‘service and stewardship’?

Reason

Yale Law Prof. Kate Stith Confirms that the Protest of a Fed Soc Event She Moderated was Extremely Disruptive

There have been conflicting accounts of the infamous March 10 protest of a Yale Federalist Society event. Some accounts contend that the protest was brief and not-all-that disruptive in the scheme of things; others claim that the protest disrupted not only the event, but was so noisy that it disrupted…

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