Student groups at Seton Hall University Law School (the South Orange, New Jersey school is the oldest Catholic diocesan college in the U.S.) will be giving their annual “Sandra Day O’Connor Medal of Honor” to Judge Maryanne Trump Barry of the U.S. Court of Appeals (Third Circuit) on April 16th. Besides being sister of The Donald, Judge Barry is best known for authoring the 2000 opinion striking down the New Jersey’s partial-birth abortion statute – her award may be fitting given that Justice O’Connor has been the pivotal pro-abortion vote in recent SCOTUS rulings. In 1998 then-NJ Governor Christine Todd Whitman won the O’Connor award, but the ceremony was forced off-campus by SHU president Monsignor Robert Sheeran, who held that “Seton Hall has a clearly stated policy that no public recognition is given to those espousing positions contrary to our Catholic mission. . . . This includes publicly supporting pro-choice views.” One can only hope Msgr. Sheeran sees fit to once again play his trump card by Friday.