When
the
Pentagon
announced
that
they’d
kneecaped
themselves
by
refusing
to
give
money
to
law
students
accepted
to
the
country’s
most
prestigious
and
highly
ranked
law
schools,
it
became
a
lot
less
obvious
where
they’d
do
their
recruiting
from.
Before
the
last
few
weeks,
the
Department
boasted
the
best
and
the
brightest
placed
at
elite
law
schools.
Now,
our
best
bet
for
figuring
out
which
law
schools
still
enjoy
the
Pentagon’s
favor
might
be
to
pay
attention
to
the
schools
Trump
pulls
his
judges
from.
And
as
far
as
he’s
concerned,
petty
things
like
adherence
to
the
Constitution
mean
nothing
compared
to
the
new
ideal:
undying
fealty
to
the
Republican
party.
And
few
schools
highlight
that
devotion
as
boldly
as
the
one
named
after
a
Supreme
Court
justice
remembered
for
“pure
applesauce”
and
a
terrible
dissent
in
Obergefell
v.
Hodges
more
concerned
with
name
calling
than
legal
analysis.
That
school
of
course
is
George
Mason
University’s
Antonin
Scalia
Law
School
—
which
was
originally
and
infamously
named
the
“Antonin
Scalia
School
of
Law”
and
will
therefore
forever
be
known
around
here
as
ASS
Law.
And
when
it
comes
to
judicial
placement,
ASS
shook
its
way
to
the
top
under
Trump’s
leadership.
Bloomberg
Law
has
coverage:
Trump
has
tapped
more
graduates
from
George
Mason
University’s
Antonin
Scalia
Law
School
to
be
judges
in
his
second
term
than
from
any
other
law
school
in
the
nation,
according
to
a
Bloomberg
Law
analysis
of
federal
judiciary
data
on
judicial
appointments.Three
Scalia
Law
graduates
were
confirmed
last
year
to
federal
district
court
judgeships,
while
two
other
alumni
were
announced
as
nominees
earlier
this
month.
If
confirmed,
those
five
Scalia
Law
alumni
will
outnumber
Trump’s
second-term
judicial
appointees
from
Harvard
and
Yale’s
law
schools
combined.The
new
appointments
show
the
administration
is
starting
to
turn
to
a
school
historically
known
as
being
more
conservative
than
others,
and
is
putting
less
of
an
emphasis
on
elite
academic
credentials
when
it
comes
to
picking
future
judges.
Judge
placement
has
yuge
consequences.
There’s
the
obvious
short
term
benefit
of
appointing
someone
that
will
seal
the
documents
you’d
rather
not
ever
see
the
light
of
day,
but
there’s
also
the
generational
impact
of
knowing
that
the
students
that
clerk
for
these
judges
will
carry
the
flame.
Unfortunately,
that
flame
is
likely
to
consist
of
shameless
plugs
for
how
willing
you
are
to
side
with
batshit
opinions
if
it
means
avoiding
the
president
publicly
shaming
you
and
avoiding
the
cuck
chair.
If
he
excoriated
3
Republican
Supreme
Court
justices
as
“fools
and
lapdogs
for
the
RINOs
and
the
radical
left
democrats”
because
they
had
the
nerve
to
not
let
him
usurp
Congress’
constitutionally
mandated
power
of
the
purse,
what
type
of
jurisprudence
commitments
will
his
new
judicial
nominees
have?
Judge
James
Ho
was
aiming
at
the
current
roster
of
judges,
but
to
borrow
his
words
for
this
situation,
prepare
for
judges
with
“[an]
overinflated
view
of
their
intelligence
and
their
abilities.”
And
while
I
have
no
hate
for
ASS
law
graduates
specifically,
the
Trump
administration
doesn’t
have
the
best
track
record
when
it
comes
to
choosing
which
judges
to
vest
with
power.
George
Mason
Tops
Harvard,
Yale
as
Trump
Judge
Law
School
Source
[Bloomberg
Law]
Earlier:
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Declares
War
On
Good
Law
Schools
Because
Of
Woke
DOJ
Ditches
ABA
Judicial
Vetting
Because
‘Being
Qualified’
Is
Too
Woke
In
Shocking
Twist,
Judge
Aileen
Cannon
Sides
With
Donald
Trump.
Again.
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boat
builder
who
is
learning
to
swim
and
is
interested
in
rhetoric,
Spinozists
and
humor.
Getting
back
in
to
cycling
wouldn’t
hurt
either.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.