Anti-Gay Judge: No Yalies Need Apply After Recruiter Ban
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What was I just saying about Alabama?
Oh yeah -- "viciously anti-gay":
Of course, this loon isn't just hurting himself or the Yale grads (including the straight ones) who have nothing to do with setting policy. He's also hurting the people of Alabama by depriving them of fine young lawyers, who often go on to become law professors or even judges themselves. So much for "public servant."
But, as we have seen before, the judges of Alabama view the courts as toys to play with and pulpits to preach from, rather than solemn chambers from which to uphold the law and protect individual rights.
I'm reminded of the following:
Maybe secession wouldn't have been such a bad idea after all.
Hat tip to How Appealing.
Movie Recommendation: A good time to lighten up by re-watching "My Cousin Vinny." What a great swan song performance by Fred Gwynne (a/k/a Herman Munster) as the uptight Alabama Judge (and Yale Law grad): "I can assure you that we have just as fine a system of jurisprudence down here as they have in the rest of the country!"
That film was, of course, pure fantasy.
Oh yeah -- "viciously anti-gay":
An Alabama federal judge has told Yale Law School he won't accept its graduates for clerkships because the school blocks military recruiters from campus.
Senior U.S. District Judge William Acker Jr., a Yale graduate, explained his decision in a Monday letter to the law school's Dean Harold Koh. Acker wrote that he was exercising the same freedom of speech that U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall supported when she ruled Jan. 31. She backed the faculty's claim that their rights to free speech were violated by enforcement of the Solomon amendment, which requires schools to provide access to military recruiters or lose federal funding, including student loans.
In response, Acker said Yale Law School students need not apply. "Some of my very best law clerks have been from the law school from which I proudly graduated," Acker said. "I therefore recognize that this publicly announced decision will hurt me more than the allowing of military recruiters would hurt YLS."
Of course, this loon isn't just hurting himself or the Yale grads (including the straight ones) who have nothing to do with setting policy. He's also hurting the people of Alabama by depriving them of fine young lawyers, who often go on to become law professors or even judges themselves. So much for "public servant."
But, as we have seen before, the judges of Alabama view the courts as toys to play with and pulpits to preach from, rather than solemn chambers from which to uphold the law and protect individual rights.
I'm reminded of the following:
"The schools in Alabama were so bad that the people of Alabama sued the state -- which means the people of Alabama sued themselves..." --Lewis Black
Maybe secession wouldn't have been such a bad idea after all.
Hat tip to How Appealing.
Movie Recommendation: A good time to lighten up by re-watching "My Cousin Vinny." What a great swan song performance by Fred Gwynne (a/k/a Herman Munster) as the uptight Alabama Judge (and Yale Law grad): "I can assure you that we have just as fine a system of jurisprudence down here as they have in the rest of the country!"
That film was, of course, pure fantasy.
Posted by KipEsquire on
9 February 2005
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