Things Are Going Historically Bad: Looks like we’re living in the worst 100 first days of a presidency. FASORP Goes Full Spite LARP-ing: The losers want law review applicants to lie about themselves on their personal statements. Don’t Find Tax Law Too Taxing?: Here’s where you want to enroll! Are There 9 People Out There […]
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a Catholic virtual charter school’s bid to become the nation’s first religious charter school. The Oklahoma charter school board that approved the Catholic school’s application tells the justices that a state supreme court ruling invalidating its contract with the school violates the Constitution and harms […]
The argument on Tuesday in Laboratory Corp. of America v. Davis presents another in a remarkable string of cases this year that have reached the argument stage without clearly presenting the question on which the justices granted review. The presentation in Labcorp’s opening brief is powerful and direct. First it posits the idea that federal […]
As we’ve mentioned time and time again here at Above the Law, there are lots of factors that go into deciding what your perfect law school is. While net cost and job outcomes likely will — and should — dominate any decision calculus, there are still other things to look at when making your final […]
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me. [The judges are] deranged is all I can think of. I think some of these judges think that they are beyond and above the law. They are not, and we […]
Remember FASORP, the reverse discrimination edgelords that sound like they were named after a crummy corporation in a lazy dystopian novel? These jokers hijacked University of Michigan’s listserv at the beginning of April to whine about personal statements, painting them as Title VI, Title IX, and 42 U.S.C. § 1981 rending monstrosities forcing DEI into […]
* Partners come out in defense of Susman Godfrey in suit against Trump. [Reuters] * S&C trying to downplay their role as collaborator-in-chief. [American Lawyer] * Supreme Court considering constitutionality of diverting public school funding to religious schools. [Bloomberg Law News] * A look back at the journey George Santos took from Congress to prison. […]
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Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. Happy Monday! Hope you are enjoying the longer days of sunshine as summer approaches. I’ve already started […]
I’m jumping the gun. The 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency is actually tomorrow, April 29. But I have a Monday column here at Above the Law, so I’m celebrating early. I ask you this: What president had the worst first 100 days of his presidency? And I answer, without hesitation . . . . May I have […]
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