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Date Posted: 18:43:06 06/15/12 Fri
Author: Mike Brown
Subject: Of course everyone knows just how truly fucking stupid lawyers are
In reply to: Lawshark 's message, "No..." on 07:27:52 06/15/12 Fri

Especially the Harvard ones. But even they would know better than to insult people's intelligence with that kind of laughably delusional drivel!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/04/28/first-black-elected-to-head-harvards-law-review/

As a one-time law student, there are a few things I know about making law review.

For starters, you must be one of the very top students in your respective law school. Making law review is a highly coveted position amongst those who take law academics very seriously and achieve only high grades.

I also know that to be chosen for the top spot on any law school�s law review is a position for which the very best students would kill. Why? It is an absolute career maker � especially when that law school is Harvard.

Donald Trump would tell you that Obama�s election to law review is part the Manchurian Candidate conspiracy that began with the faking of his birth certificate and publication of birth in a Hawaii newspaper. That conspiracy, which has encompassed all aspects of Obama�s life, apparently included the administrators, deans, and other �grown ups� at the Harvard Law School-not to mention the New York Times which was convinced to publish the above piece despite the fact that it was all a very sophisticated ruse.

But there is a problem.

But let�s play along with The Donald. What would it take to convince Harvard Law students to participate in the conspiracy?

Was it money? Promises of position?

I think you�ll find that a large number of those attending Harvard Law come from families with a few bucks in the bank. Surely, one of them would have blown the whistle if someone were trying to buy their vote.

As for position, there�s pretty much only one thing at Harvard that would elevate the huge opportunities that already come to anyone who earns a Harvard Law Degree � and that would be the presidency of the Law Review. Thus, it is highly illogical that a student would forgo the future plums that come from getting the top spot for themselves in exchange for the opportunities they would already have locked up simply by being a Harvard Law graduate.

Susan Estrich � who had broken similar ground when she became the first woman elected to the presidency of Havard Law Review � had this to say about Obama�s tenure at the Law Review�

�He was as much a traditionalist as anything,� recalled Susan Estrich, the USC School of Law professor who served as Michael Dukakis� campaign manager in 1988 � and who broke ground as the first female president of the Harvard Law Review 14 years before Obama took the reins. �It was a big deal that he got the presidency. He was selected because of merit, and he believed in the institution and its history. There are some years [at the Review] that are radical and others that are traditional.�

Via Politico

There are a lot of things in this world you can fake.

Convincing head-strong, committed, idealistic but competitive Harvard law students �each certain that he or she is the future of the world � to go along with a plot to give young Barack Obama the most coveted spot at Harvard Law, is simply not one of them.

Having come across this New York Times piece, it occurred to me to go looking for anything that would reveal Donald Trump�s success as a student.

The president of the Harvard Law Review � arguably the most coveted position in the country for law students- is not selected by the university grown-ups. That position is awarded by one�s fellow students � students who very much want the position for themselves and would sooner cut off their left arm than to gratuitously award this most coveted of honors to someone they did not believe deserved it.

And if they did, there would be more than one still complaining about it to this day.

(and there's more, particularly in re the stunningly inept academic career of one Donald Trump)

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