Lawyers: what do you think of Federalist Society today?

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Anonymous wrote:If you get into a good DC law school, by definition you're very bright. High intelligence on any objective metric.

It's rare for a high intelligence person to truly believe in conservative values. The thing is, when you're a smart thinking person, your analysis takes you to liberalism. Smart people generally have to bend over backwards to come up with logic to support conservative issues.

As a consequence, only like 5% of students at good law schools lean conservative.

So they join the fed society to find their people.

It means that it's an instant networking org when they graduate.

In short, if you're willing to sell out your intellectual thoughtfulness to join a MAGA job-ladder, sure. But I assume anyone in those organizations in law school don't actually believe in the logic that gets them to those values. They are just willing to push their values aside for their professional ladder-climbiing aspirations.

What DC law school is good? Georgetown isnt even in the Top 14 anymore.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you get into a good DC law school, by definition you're very bright. High intelligence on any objective metric.

It's rare for a high intelligence person to truly believe in conservative values. The thing is, when you're a smart thinking person, your analysis takes you to liberalism. Smart people generally have to bend over backwards to come up with logic to support conservative issues.

As a consequence, only like 5% of students at good law schools lean conservative.

So they join the fed society to find their people.

It means that it's an instant networking org when they graduate.

In short, if you're willing to sell out your intellectual thoughtfulness to join a MAGA job-ladder, sure. But I assume anyone in those organizations in law school don't actually believe in the logic that gets them to those values. They are just willing to push their values aside for their professional ladder-climbiing aspirations.

What DC law school is good? Georgetown isnt even in the Top 14 anymore.

No one thinks Georgetown is suddenly a second tier law school because USNWR jiggled its ratings

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Anonymous wrote:FedSoc is just MAGA in a nice suit to me. Auto-ding if I see that on a resume.

Gross. Closed-minded loony.

+1 (And I'm a liberal.)

Either you’re lying or you know nothing about the Federalist Society. I’m the same way that it’s OK to not hire Nazis, it’s OK to not hire people actively working to destroy American democracy and pave the way for oligarchic kleptocracy.

PP. Not lying. And I know plenty about the Federalist Society. Probably more than most people commenting on this post. In particular, I'm quite familiar with how membership can help put lawyers on the path to prestigious appointments, including the bench.

Some people who describe themselves as liberal actually just value polite discourse. They will accept any abhorrent position so long as it's respectfully stated and everyone agrees to disagree and then adjourn for coffee.

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Liberal is not the same as open-minded.

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Anonymous wrote:FedSoc is just MAGA in a nice suit to me. Auto-ding if I see that on a resume.

Gross. Closed-minded loony.

+1 (And I'm a liberal.)

Either you’re lying or you know nothing about the Federalist Society. I’m the same way that it’s OK to not hire Nazis, it’s OK to not hire people actively working to destroy American democracy and pave the way for oligarchic kleptocracy.

PP. Not lying. And I know plenty about the Federalist Society. Probably more than most people commenting on this post. In particular, I'm quite familiar with how membership can help put lawyers on the path to prestigious appointments, including the bench.

I’m the “close-minded loony.” I’m plenty familiar with the career advantages, having played nice with the FedSoc types in law school despite my ideological differences. I’m indifferent to whether someone wholeheartedly subscribes to the organization’s democracy-destroying, kleptocracy-promoting agenda, or only does so for purposes of selfish gain; neither person is someone I think would make a good colleague. These folks can pen their Ayn Rand inspired briefs and amateur pieces of selective history by their lonely self somewhere else.