Emotional Meltdown in American Law Schools

Mark Joseph Stern of Slate has written a report from the front lines on how American law-school faculty members and students are handling the first year under an originalist Supreme Court. Every American citizen who cares about our legal system should pay close attention — but not for the reasons Stern wants. The picture that emerges from this and much of the rest of the Left’s legal journalism at the start of the 2022–23 Supreme Court term is of a movement having an emotional meltdown because its intellectual framework leaves no room for an elite institution they don’t control and can’t intimidate.

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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Mark Joseph Stern of Slate has written a report from the front lines on how American law-school faculty members and students are handling the first year under an originalist Supreme Court. Every American citizen who cares about our legal system should pay close attention — but not for the reasons Stern wants. The picture that emerges from this and much of the rest of the Left’s legal journalism at the start of the 2022–23 Supreme Court term is of a movement having an emotional meltdown because its intellectual framework leaves no room for an elite institution they don’t control and can’t intimidate.

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