Conservative Supreme Court justice hit pieces

Wait till the next empty shoe drops.

That s how law professor Josh Blackman concludes a discussion of The New York Times open-mouthed discovery that law schools have summer study-abroad programs and sometimes they recruit celebrity professors, even Supreme Court justices, to teach them.

The Times believes it has found a scandal because George Mason s Scalia Law School has one of these programs and seeks Supreme Court justices to teach in the summer.

My law school has one of these too. So does Blackman s.

He comments: Shocker! A DC law school works hard to connect its students with the leaders of the profession. My own law school has organized similar programs in the past with Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Ginsburg. (My students described it as a once-in-a-lifetime experience.)

But, you see, the law school and the justices involved here are conservative, so the Times thinks or, more accurately, wants its readers to think there must be something nefarious going on, perhaps collusion.

Why, George Mason s legal clinic sometimes files friend-of-the-court briefs in the Supreme Court, which the paper would like you to believe is some sort of conflict of interest.

Never mind that schools like Harvard and Yale were until recently, anyway much closer to many justices on the court than this.

via nypost.com

Glenn Reynolds.