LAW SCHOOLS

Law Professor Responds To Supreme Court Leak With Racist Commentary. Gee, I Wonder Which Law School...

Why are we not surprised?

By JOE PATRICE
on May 4, 2022 at 11:48 AM

[UPDATE: The dean has issued a response, reproduced below]

In fairness, there are a few law schools that could have a professor with thumbs furiously typing out racist garbage on social media. But as much as I appreciate an underdog, some days you just have to play the odds and put your faith in the sure thing.

So a law school that contorted its public school mission (in a not-so-appropriate manner) to become the Kamar-Taj of right-wing legal academia, gathering conservative legal academics left behind by the bankruptcy of their wares on the marketplace of ideas, and then giving itself a facially laughable name in a misguided effort to feed the cult of their hero? Yeah, let’s guess ASSLaw.

And that’s the right answer! George Mason University School of Law, rebranded as the Antonin Scalia School of Law before everyone pointed out how abbreviations work (they belatedly tried to make Antonin Scalia Law School a thing — it’s not), is exactly the institution you have to check first when your tipster subject is “Law professor writes racist tweet over SCOTUS leak.”

Hey, that’s just what they call academic freedom and free speech when you’re an ASSClown! ... Let’s check in on ASSLaw Professor Frank Buckley:

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