Maggots: Liberal legal establishment wrongly attacks conservative Federalist Society

Not content with stifling dissent at overwhelmingly leftist law schools, the progressive legal establishment is now threatening to trample conservative judges’ freedom of association. Their proposal should be shot down, and its remains should be buried.

The proposal comes from the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the Judicial Conference of the United States. It would allow judges and their clerks to be members of the notably liberal American Bar Association, but not members of the conservative Federalist Society or the left-wing American Constitution Society. As the Federalist Society has been longer-established, and is seen as far more influential than the ACS, so most observers see this proposal as aimed squarely at the Federalist Society.

The purported objection to membership in the Federalist Society and ACS is that such membership would cast doubt on a judge’s impartiality. Both groups allegedly take “a consistent political or ideological point of view equivalent to the type of partisanship often found in political organizations.” The group says the ABA, on the other hand, is dedicated to “promoting legal education, professionalism, and public service … ” and “clearly oriented toward the improvement of the law as a whole” rather than an ideological agenda.
But as both Ed Whelan and the editorialists at the Wall Street Journal have explained, this is poppycock. As Whelan put it:

The ABA has a D.C. ‘governmental affairs’ office that has the express purpose of lobbying Congress and the executive branch on ‘diverse issues of importance to the legal profession’… [and a] Grassroots Action Center through which it tries to mobilize the public ‘to send messages directly to your elected officials’—e.g., ‘Tell Congress the Border Needs Help.’ The ABA frequently files amicus briefs, including in hot-button cases, in the Supreme Court and in the federal courts of appeals. And it adopts resolutions on a broad range of public-policy topics. On all these matters, the ABA routinely endorses liberal positions.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/liberal-legal-establishment-wrongly-attacks-conservative-federalist-society

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Maggots: Liberal legal establishment wrongly attacks conservative Federalist Society

Maggots: Liberal legal establishment wrongly attacks conservative Federalist Society

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