Letter: "There is a deep state, but it's not what they think."

[kpete]

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1. Bingo.

[Hortensis]

2. Koch types at al have been stuffing governments

at all levels with conservatives for some decades now, the upper levels with graduates of schools in universities they created through large endowments specifically to turn out people who think as they want them to. Who then move, in some cases assisted, into positions of eventual responsibility and authority in virtually all significant aspects of society.

I read a few years ago that, at that time, UCLA was the only major university that had not allowed itself to be bought, to accept endowments for the teaching of ideas that were once almost universally considered intellectually dishonest and invalid.

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3. It's worst in law schools

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[Hortensis]

4. Wow, shows how severe this problem has become.

This affirmative action of hiring conservatives who "think right" has been going on for a very long time, of course. And most politicians also have law degrees.

[Bluepinky]

5. That's really bad and might explain what happened to my nephew.

He was previously left leaning, then he graduated from law school and is now rabidly right wing, watches Fox News and is unapproachable. It broke my heart to see him change like that. I didn’t think of the possibility that law schools might groom students to have a specific political outlook.

My daughter graduated from college last year with a political science degree and hasn’t known what to do with it. Now she wants to go to law school to focus on immigration law, due to the immigration crisis (of our government’s making).

Aren’t there also a lot of liberal attorneys teaching law students as well?

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6. Yes but there is less money on the left

Most college professors are liberals because smart people see through the right wing propaganda machine.

So of course there are a lot of liberal law professors.

The problem is that there is massive right wing affirmative action that promotes the few right wing law students. So guys like Kavanaugh or Clarence Thomas would likely be nobodies if they were liberals. Especially Thomas - it’s SO ironic he rails against affirmative action. Because he has massively benefited from affirmative action, just not racial affirmative action — rightwing billionaire-funded legal affirmative action. He’s a weak legal mind and he’s been brainwashed by the right as well. Sad.

[Bluepinky]

7. There's much less money on the left, which is why the Republicans passed Citizens United.

When the Democrats are back in power (and I have to hope they will be), they need to overturn Citizens United. I think they should put into the platform that they don’t accept corporate money, to show that we are the party of people while Republicans are the party of corporations.

I agree that Clarence Thoma is not only a weak legal mind but a weak mind all around.

I’m glad to hear there are a lot of liberal law professors. I think some fields appeal to conservatives, such as those in finance. I would think a lot of people in these professions are right wing.

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8. Congress can overturn Cit U.

Congress can pass a lot of laws to limit the effect of the Republican justices’ Cit u decision.
We just need a Dem majority - and a president that will sign them.
No constitutional amendments or SCOTUS decisions are required.