Kevin M. Kruse: I've read countless legal briefs from racial segregationists and literal white supremacists but I don't I've never seen anything quite as sneeringly stupid as this.

I've read countless legal briefs from racial segregationists and literal white supremacists but I don't I've never seen anything quite as sneeringly stupid as this.

The complaint is here, but it's one of the grossest things I've read in a while so don't read before eating. I suppose I'm lucky that, as a non-TT person, no one is going to misrepresent me as "unqualified Asian gay man" — yet. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2q5ws...

www.dropbox.com

"Faculty hiring at American universities is a cesspool of corruption and lawlessness." This has to rank as one of the stupidest opening lines of a legal document in the history of the American judiciary.

Seems like this graph in WaPo should have gone earlier: "The suit includes plaintiffs that it says could be applicants for jobs at any number of universities, which ... gives them standing to sue “any university we want.” None of the professors mentioned in the complaint were aware of the lawsuit."

So they’re still making up hypothetical situations for lawsuits? These plaintiffs COULD BE applicants; did any of them apply and get rejected?

Well, they seem to be actual situations, but they know nothing about the actual details of the cases. Anyway, I've been on search committees in which we've rejected the most "qualified" person on paper because they didn't fit, tanked the interview, or were utter catastrophes in person.

I’d be interested in what “qualified” means because I’ve interviewed and passed on people who look great on paper but are absolute nightmares as people

I would suspect they haven't even done a comparison of CVs, let alone other qualifications.

Oh, goody! I mean, it's awful, & it's bad for our country that it's out there. But it's been a while since we had some fun #LitigationDisasterTourism from @questauthority.bsky.social or @akivamcohen.bsky.social, & @badlawyerpod.bsky.social always does a good job on sanctimonious lawyer-plaintiffs

You're going to have to give me some detail. I blocked that schmuck several months back.

It's an "affirmative action in hiring faculty is illegal" screed cosplaying as requesting an injunction against Northwestern.

Ah.

These are the skeets shared by Kruse. bsky.app/profile/gsha...

Oh, you thought the clowning stopped with the end of the SCOTUS term? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/u...

Lawsuit Challenges Affirmative Action in Hiring at Northwestern Law Schoolwww.nytimes.com The complaint was filed a year after the Supreme Court struck down the use of racial and gender preferences in college admissions.

I was having trouble with the link, and CourtListener won't take the document via RECAP for technical reasons, so I've reposted it here: northwestern-lolsuit.tiiny.site

Northwestern U Law School lolsuitnorthwestern-lolsuit.tiiny.site Northwestern U Law School lolsuit

My first observation is that the made-for-litigation plaintiff is called Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences, but I don't think its membership includes any actual Northwestern Law Faculty, Alumni, or Students. I could be wrong.

Anyway, this screenshot should get you & Akiva off to a good start

It's got the ready and able language that worked recently for standing in the Fearless case, but nothing else.

It's not even supposed to BE a legal brief If I were a judge, I'd make lawyers, out loud & in open court, read Fed. Rule of Civil Pro. 8(a), which requires a complaint to contain "a short and plain statement of the claim," & ask them if they think they complied. Other than that, I'd be a pussycat

"plaintiff FASORP has organizational standing to sue any university that refuses to adopt colorblind and sex-neutral faculty-hiring practices." Well, OK then. We'll just accept that asserion, shall we?

Do the words "private attorney general" mean nothing to you?

Same idiots sued NYU Law for the same thing a few years ago and the 2nd Circuit ruled they didn't have standing. www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

Appeals court backs NYU law review in challenge to diversity policywww.reuters.com New York University School of Law's flagship law review can claim another court win over a group of academics challenging the journal’s diversity policies.

Harvard too, also dismissed on standing. www.thecrimson.com/article/2019...

Lawsuit Alleging Harvard Law Review Discriminates in Member Selection Process Dismissed | News | The Harvard Crimsonwww.thecrimson.com Lawsuit Alleging Harvard Law Review Discriminates in Member Selection Process Dismissed | News | The Harvard Crimson

Oops, my bad, they sued the law reviews for discrimination, not the schools themselves.

Brief was deleted apparently

@jjgass.bsky.social has a copy on his feed

Here you go northwestern-lolsuit.tiiny.site

Northwestern U Law School lolsuitnorthwestern-lolsuit.tiiny.site Northwestern U Law School lolsuit

OK, so the worst rants I've ever heard from collegues who didn't get the grant/position/whatever barely reaches half-way of that first paragraph (don't plan to read further). And that has been in bars, over significant alcohol, right after the decision.

Right? And you read far enough. It only gets worse.

I'll sit that one out. Out on my balcony, to be precise. Reclining in the pleasant summer evening, in very casual shorts, stroking my greying beard and balancing a white russian on my stomach perfectly dimensioned for precisely this. Strongly recommended.

Did the Always Sunny gang write this?

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