Marisa Kabas: THAT IS A FORM OF INFLUENCE. YOU’RE A FUCKING LAW PROFESSOR.

THAT IS A FORM OF INFLUENCE. YOU’RE A FUCKING LAW PROFESSOR.

A law professor who is also receiving free vacations from Crow

so much of this is like, well if thomas was doing something wrong, maybe *i* was doing something wrong—no that can’t be

"It is the poors who are out of touch."

I just got to the ‘struggling with money but a friend loaned him $270k for an RV’ part and I want to kick some rich people in their money sacks.

But but but ... the RV is part of Thomas' "just folks" persona. (Seriously, a few years ago the spouse and I bought a *house* for about that amount of money. Our "RV" is a hatchback with some camping gear piled in the back.)

My house is worth half that… today. I bought it 10 years ago for a quarter of the price of that RV. It’s not a shack on a patch of dirt, either. I call my camping supplies ‘Plan B’ in case I lose my job and my home. Unlike Clarence, I don’t have a lifetime guaranteed income and healthcare.

“George Priest, a Yale law professor who is influenced by Thomas’ views,”

Bingo

No one said law professors were actually smart

even the yale ones!

Especially the Yale ones

Yup. Part of what has become obvious in recent years is how terribly our 'elite' universities are at inculcating morals, or even basic legal ethics.

FACTS

Wait was 'inculcating morals' a major purpose of higher education? That really wasn't part of the job as it was described to me.

Did you go to an ivy? That was a mistake.

especially for sure

that place has some of the most malevolent vibes i have ever encountered

Amen!

Have you met any Harvard ones?

I’ve known enough Yale-educated lawyers to be skeptical of their professional ethics curriculum — or that of any white-shoe feeder school, really — but Jesus Christ, this is taking casuistic hair-splitting to a an entirely new level.

*stares in Dershowitz and Turley*

this is THE response

“he’s not trying to influence thomas’s views, he’s merely ensuring that thomas continues delivering views that he already likes” is the sort of clever-boy thing i would expect from law school

It sounds like he's also corrupt, rather than not being smart enough.

He's either in on this thing as well, or does something similar in his own sphere.

Can't it be both?

No they are actually smart but they also have huge hubris and think that because they are these Elite lawyer professors that they can get away with it they live by a different set of rules because they know how to manipulate the law

The ability to perform mental gymnastics isn’t limited to small children explaining why they didn’t actually eat all the cookies

Arguing in the alternative is their stock in trade. Apparently if you’re really good at it you get a place on Yale’s faculty. I always wondered abt implausible args my profs wld describe (so we could prepare to counter them, not make them ourselves). But nothing prepared me for insane horseshit.

well, liz bruenig wrote that whole article and i’ve been mad at her since

What article?

One mentioned here. I don’t feel like giving direct clicks because I’m still mad people will fall for its narrative abovethelaw.com/2021/07/amy-...

The Atlantic's paywall would prevent me from falling for its narrative! I wouldn't trust anything Elizabeth Bruenig writes regardless. How does this relate to Harlan Crow?

conservative legal power grab runs through amy chua at yale

He knows what he is doing ... gaslighting. Truth isn't relevant for his twisting of the situation in striving to make this "Friends With Benefits" situation look anything less than the (should be (maybe is) illegal) slimy reality. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends...

Or ethical.. I tend to be more doubtful about the ethics for some reason . Shameless and entitled too

or honest.

I view myself as having a limited salary but no one is giving me a bunch of money

Right? Good luck if they became disabled....

The people who run this country would simply melt into screaming puddles of goop if they had to even think about subsisting on what we do for our entire lives.

100% I hope you have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 🎉 It's us "have nots" who appreciate everything we have 😊 Most of us want for peace and health 🙏

You too Cindy!

Thank you ❤️💚

I get paid weekly. VERY weakly, in fact.

“For only 50¢ a day, you can help a Supreme Court justice get the critical help they need to live a life of luxury.”

"I was born a poor black child.."

Also what a world to live in where 200k is a vow of poverty.

Living paycheck to paycheck really, tragic.

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