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24 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The same person Tweets over and over again -- and this man republishes on his blog -- about me and a "Hoax" in which law schools and the "Fake News Media" seek to destroy careers of members of the Federalist Society. Of course I'll respond. This is nuts.
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09…
I used to be a faculty advisor for the Federalist Society. I welcome ideas I don't always agree with. But ever since 2016 public discourse has become weird. "Hoax", "Fake News Media", conspiracies against White students persecuted by colleges, imaginary murder plots.
I call BS.
This same blogger says "many" (he won't say who) law professors believe racism wasn't involved in the killing of George Floyd and that law deans should be silent about racism and the killing of George Floyd. He called Nikole Hannah-Jones an "imbecile." This isn't civil discourse.
If this blogger doesn't think the Tweet is truthful, why is he republishing it and also other Tweets from the same person? This is just plain nuts.
Calling Pulitzer Prize winning scholar and journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones an "imbecile" is not exactly how educated people discuss and critique the 1619 Project. How did we sink to this level of public discourse?
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2019/12/t…
Part -- not all but an important part -- of what these historians say is true. Racism has been our Country's most grievous sin. As a person of faith I am not afraid of acknowledging sin and saying we must act now to set things right. A humanist with moral principles would agree.

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Richard W. Painter Profile picture
23 Sep
Let me get this straight. I am part of a conspiracy with a law school perpetrating a Hoax with the Fake News Press to do what? Destroy careers of @FedSoc members? OK.....
A University of Chicago professor whose other hobby is ranking law schools and poking fun at efforts to combat racism, for whatever reason keeps promoting this person in blog posts and on Twitter, repeating her conspiracy theories as she raises yet more money through GoFundMe.
Here we go. After Brian Leiter touts this person's GoFundMe page and her Tweets saying I, Yale Law School and NYU Law School have a "conspiracy" against the Federalist Society, he says I lack moral compass because I object? And Leiter "ranks" law schools?
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09…
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Richard W. Painter Profile picture
22 Sep
These lawyers should be disbarred.
Insurrection and sedition are not First Amendment rights.
Lawyers may not lie to anyone. ABA Rule 4.1.
Lawyers may not aid and abet a fraud or crime. Rule 1.2(d).
Lawyers may not misrepresent facts to a court. Rule 3.3
slate.com/news-and-polit…
Lawyers who lie?
Not OK
americanbar.org/groups/profess…
"A lawyer shall not counsel a client to engage, or assist a client, in conduct [such as insurrection, sedition or staging a coup] that the lawyer knows is criminal or fraudulent."
ABA Rule 1.2(d).
americanbar.org/groups/profess…
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Richard W. Painter Profile picture
22 Sep
This frivolous litigation continues.
A White student called police to report a Black student sleeping in the common room.
The White student then sues Yale PD to obtain the body camera video. Unhinged bloggers egg it on.
Case dismissed.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/09/0…
The biggest fan of this plaintiff is a blogger who says 1) Nikole Hannah-Jones is an "imbecile" because she disagrees with him, 2) law deans may not talk about racism and the killing of George Floyd, and 3) the ABA is wrong to ask law schools to teach about racism. Go figure....
This is ridiculous.
A Black woman student was called in to the Yale police for napping in the common room. A crime???
Now the White woman who made the call is suing to get the body cam.
And I'm the bad guy?
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09…
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Richard W. Painter Profile picture
21 Sep
This ABA rule would require law school "education on bias, crosscultural competency, and racism.” A few professors whine about this interfering with "academic freedom." Yet every business should want their attorneys to know this. Beats getting sued.
nationalreview.com/2021/08/the-am…
Here's some whining about the ABA rule on racism from Brian Leiter, the same professor who called Nikole Hannah-Jones an "imbecile" in a blog post and Tweeted that law school deans may not talk about racism and the killing of George Floyd.
What a joke.
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/06…
Many law professors get paid more than the governor. We don't have the "academic freedom" to refuse students the education they need to practice law. The legal and social impact of racism is something lawyers need to know unless they want their clients to get sued.
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19 Sep
This Tweet is disgusting. Image
Nobody should be silent about racism. Nobody should tell anyone else that they must remain silent. We either stand up to bullies or we succumb. We must not back down.
The upshot: Law deans must stay silent about racism in policing because the "many" (although unidentified) law professors who deny the problem of racism might feel their "academic freedom" is being threatened. What a load of bull sh$%.
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18 Sep
Our Thanksgiving holiday celebrates the events of 1620 (the arrival of the Mayflower passengers and their descendants). This historical perspective starts the year before. We owe it to our Country to listen with open minds and not attack the messenger.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
I do not agree with every conclusion of every historian affiliated with he 1619 Project, nor do I believe every narrative about my own ancestors. But to discern the truth we must listen to each other, and most important think about how to move forward and make it better.
We gain nothing from the blanket hostility directed at the 1619 Project by Fox News, right wing newspapers, and antagonistic blog posts, including obsessive postings by Brian Leiter that I recently criticized. That's no way to find historical truth or work toward a better future.
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