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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/ssurovell/status/1652681317467803651?s=46&t=kf1qYlCXQnKgUhJWEIu2vg[/twitter][/quote]

These hit pieces have become comical.

[twitter]https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1652716237539999748[/twitter]

[twitter]https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1652728132770873345[/twitter]

Federal judges are *encouraged* to teach.

Including specifically by the federal judicial ethics rules.

Justices Thomas, [b]Kagan[/b], Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh all taught at George Mason Law.

A DC-area public law school on the rise.

Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Kennedy, Rehnquist, Roberts, Scalia, Sotomayor, and Stevens also all taught at law schools.

And yes, gasp, even overseas.

Great for George Mason Law students.

Green Berets, fighter pilots, naval and Coast Guard officers, CIA analysts, and other very serious students.

Oftentimes pursuing their second careers in the law.

Getting Supreme Court justices to teach is a very unique opportunity.

Wait-list every year.

Helps secure coveted federal clerkships.

Key mentorships for life.

Great for law school.

Meteoric rise in rankings.

Great for the justices.

Longtime law-school professors.

Love being in the classroom.

Especially with the extraordinary George Mason law students.

The roughly $30-$40k these justices receive for salary and travel expenses is well worth it to the school.

And preparing for, teaching, and grading these courses is a tremendous amount of work for the justices.

Especially for a highly compressed two-week program.

So it is laughable the New York Times published this dud of a hit piece.

[b]It fails to mention until the 20th paragraph, of course, Justice Kagan also teaches at George Mason Law with the conservative justices.
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[b]And Justice Sotomayor also lectures at this public law school.[/b]

Game over.

And the piece quotes Amanda Frost, an immigration law professor at a rival Virginia public law school (University of Virginia).

For her flatly incorrect opinion on the legal ethics of all of this.

There is absolutely nothing wrong here.

Quite the opposite.

Again, the ethics rules *encourage* federal judges to teach.

But no good deed goes unpunished at the New York Times.

Of Note:

The New York Times piece also fails to mention a couple other things about Amanda Frost, its "ethics expert."

Whose "ethics opinion" is flatly wrong.

Amanda Frost was a former Democrat political staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee for Ted Kennedy.

And a longtime leftwing activist and litigator at Public Citizen.

Oops.

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