The Law School That Won’t ‘Openly Discriminate Against Conservatives’ Is Gaining Favor With The Supreme Court

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Half the American people could be characterized as conservative. Half the legal profession can be characterized as conservative. In fact, there’s nothing wrong with being conservative. It’s normal. It’s normal everywhere except for in the legal academy.

I’m happy that we’re one of the few law schools in America that doesn’t openly discriminate against conservatives.

— Dean G. Marcus Cole of the University of Notre Dame Law School, in comments given to NBC News on the fact that his faculty leans heavily to the right. Cole went on to say that at other law schools, having conservatives among the faculty would be considered “a badge of dishonor.” Now that Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame alumnus, serves as a justice on the Supreme Court, the school has continued to curry favor with the high court.

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