1/ Jeremy Rosen, a prominent (conservative) appellate lawyer, has this excellent piece in @TheAtlantic about John Eastman, the closest thing to a "brain trust" for Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
1/ THREAD. ICYMI—it came out a while ago, I read it only recently—here's a fun article about "academic feeder judges" by Howard Wasserman for @DukeJudicature.
Which judges have the most former clerks who are now law professors?
Here are the top 20 academic feeder judges in the first ranking he does (Table 1 in his appendix), the judges who have sent the highest number of clerks into legal academia.
3/ As Howard Wasserman notes, "The political imbalance among feeder judges is striking."
You can see it in the top 20 judges, 15 of whom were appointed by Democratic presidents. And several of them are some of the leading liberals of the federal bench.
1/ THREAD. @AaronSibarium of the @FreeBeacon, who last week broke the story of the Yale Law School email controversy, has this must-read follow-up about how the YLS community is responding.
1/ Here’s the statement about the Yale Law School email controversy that Marina Edwards, president of the Yale Black Law Students Association, posted to The Wall (the YLS listserv) earlier today.
I’m posting in two parts. This is Part I (four images).
2/ And here is Part II of the statement of Yale BLSA president Marina Edwards about the Yale Law email controversy (three images).
3/ I don’t agree with everything in Marina Edwards’s message, but I think it is a measured, thoughtful, and generally positive statement about this controversy.
1/ Here's my interview with Trent Colbert, the Yale Law School student who sent the controversial "trap house" email, and a friend of his who's a fellow @YaleLawSch student.
"I was never aware of the word 'trap house' having any racial connotations. I thought of a 'trap house' as like a frat house, just without the frat. I had been calling our house the 'NALSA trap house' for months."
3/ Trent: "I’ve received many private messages of support. But nobody wants to be the next person targeted on GroupMe."
Trent's Friend: "There’s a very 'emperor’s new clothes' vibe—when someone says something is offensive, everyone else has to play along."