J.D. Vance Was a Poster Boy for Yale Law School. The School Won’t Congratulate Him on His Victory
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Law school congratulated Hillary Clinton when she won Dem nomination in 2016

https://freebeacon.com/campus/...-him-on-his-victory/

The day after Hillary Clinton was nominated by the Democratic National Committee in 2016, Yale Law School congratulated Clinton, class of 1973, "on her historic nomination for President of the United States." Eight years later, it is refusing to congratulate J.D. Vance on his actual election.

The school has made no statement about the vice president-elect, who graduated from Yale Law in 2013, since he and Donald Trump scored a landslide victory on Tuesday. And according to Debra Kroszner, the law school’s chief of staff, it doesn’t plan to.

Kroszner told the Washington Free Beacon that the school would include "this news" in the next issue of its alumni magazine—which is only published twice a year—but would not congratulate Vance publicly, citing a new policy against issuing institutional statements.

She declined to direct the Free Beacon to the text of that policy or explain why congratulating alumni would violate it. In just the past 10 days, the law school has publicly recognized three alumni, including federal judges from both parties, for their accomplishments, and promoted the work of a student group devoted to "immigrant justice."

Yale Law also stayed mum when Vance secured the vice presidential nomination in July and was elected to the Senate in 2022. By contrast, Ohio State University, Vance’s undergraduate alma mater, congratulated him on Wednesday hours after the race had been called.

The silence from the law school is conspicuous given the outsized role Yale played in Vance's life. The son of a single mother addicted to heroin, Vance burst onto the scene in 2016 with a best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, that grew out of a paper he wrote at Yale Law. There he met Usha Chilukuri, his future wife, and Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist who would bankroll his 2022 Senate campaign.

He also chafed at what he saw as the school’s elite monoculture, developing the beginnings of a populist critique that would define his political career.

"Despite Yale’s transformative role in his life," the New York Times wrote in July, "Vance’s relationship with the school could be summed up as conflicted."

The law school’s relationship with its conservative alumni could be summed up the same way. On the one hand, Yale Law maintains ties to right-of-center judges and has congratulated conservative alumni, including Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, in the past. But it has also taken flack for those encomia—students and faculty derided the school’s praise for Kavanaugh after he was accused of sexual assault—and has become more reticent to honor figures deemed objectionable by the school’s activist class.

The double standard has manifested in which alumni have, and don’t have, their portraits displayed in the law school. In 2018, Yale Law School commissioned a painting of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas with funding from Harlan Crow, the Texas billionaire, who donated over $100,000 for the portrait. Six years later, it has not been hung up.

The law school does display paintings of Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, and Stacey Abrams, the Democratic lawmaker who refused to concede the 2018 Georgia governor’s race, in its largest classroom. Other portraits include Abe Fortas, the former Supreme Court justice who resigned in 1969 amid allegations of corruption.

Two conservative student groups, Yale Law Republicans and the Yale Federalist Society, are now asking the law school to add a painting of Vance, who, at 40, will become one of the youngest vice presidents in history.

"Vice President-elect Vance has distinguished himself as a Yale Law alumnus and exemplifies the best of the next generation of conservatives," the groups wrote in a letter to Heather Gerken, the law school’s dean. "We hope the Yale Law School administration will join us in congratulating Vice President-elect Vance and honor this extraordinary achievement by commissioning a portrait at the law school, as it has done for many distinguished alumni."

Thus far, the only acknowledgment of Vance’s victory has come from the university, not the law school. The Nov. 7 edition of Yale Today, a daily newsletter, linked to a USA Today story about the incoming vice president, adding a short blurb—"JD Vance ‘13 J.D. elected one of the youngest vice presidents in U.S. history"—that did not explicitly congratulate him.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
Trump Says He’ll End Birth Citizenship on Day One

Sounds good, but amending the Constitution takes time. And 3/4 of the states to agree. That ain’t happening any time soon.

In multiple cases decided in the late 19th and the 20th century, the Supreme Court has recognized three exceptions to birthright citizenship: diplomatic children, tribal Indians and invading armies.

I'm curious if the exceptions could be expanded by the Court. I believe it all depends on the Citizenship clause: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is the key phrase various writers have debated since the Amendment's adoption. Some argue, and I agree with this particular train of thought, that being subject to a nation's laws means that if one's parents are here temporarily or illegally, then the citizenship clause doesn't apply to their newborn. I know many strictly argue the phrase means under U.S. sovereign law (period) but said authority has been expanded to take into consideration parental status per the other exemptions, which exclude their children born on U.S. soil.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Yeah, watching him school AOC during the congressional dog-and-pony shows, you know this guy will be a terror to the illegals.

Hannity reported last night that a huge illegal caravan with over 3000 invaders broke up and dissipated in Mexico a few days ago. They gave up.

Nick Bosa was fined by the NFL for wearing a MAGA hat on the air, now he's doing the 'Trump Dance' after he sacks the QB

https://x.com/FadeAwayMedia/st.../1855711141592273007

Brandon Hererra nomination for head of ATF.

https://www.ammoland.com/2024/...a-bbc9e7a351-7181749

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Originally posted by 12131:
I like this graphic from the Daily Mail that illustrates what a rout it was. Trump gained ground in every single state but one (WA). Total annihilation.

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This is in no way a dig at Lara Trump, her team, and the amazing work that they did to minimize the GDC’s cheating, but I can’t be the only one who looks at that graphic and thinks, “Hmmm, I wonder if Lara’s team was a little thin on the ground in WA?” I’ve only been to Washington state a few times, several of them in the eastern part of th state which could almost be considered western Idaho, and it has been more than twenty years since I’ve been to the Seattle area, but at least at that time, the people were human, not totally insane, and seemed to have enough sense to know what was better for them.

I suppose it is possible that Seattle has gotten so bad that almost all sane, productive people left, but I still think it is more likely that the commies cheated more in WA than that the population became more stupid or more insane.

Lara Trump isn’t traveling around every state working on all of this. It’s volunteers that are organized to do so.

If you want to make a difference, you can. Get involved.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
And if the child is born on American soil, then it opens the door to various social benefits and chain migration.

I guess I’m a reactionary, but I’d take a different approach. If we took a chainsaw to social benefits (specifically to the government using our tax dollars to buy votes) and went back to a Teddy Roosevelt “Root hog or die approach” and a tub grinder to excessive regulation that impedes entrepreneurs, I think that would be a better solution. I don’t care if people are twelfth generation Americans, if they are sitting on their asses sucking on the government tit (our tax dollars), we’re better off without them. If people want to migrate here legally and work their asses off to succeed and they have relatives that want to do the same, I’m good with that.

I firmly believe that the problem is the leaches and freeloaders, whether they come from a long line of Americans, whether their tribe is new to the country legally, or whether they’re here illegally. If the government stopped giving so much away to non-productive people and we became a country where one could do very well from working hard or starve if they’re lazy and useless, I think we’d all be a lot happier with the sort of folks who wanted to come here.

Beyond that, if we got the government out of the business of invading productive people’s wallets to distribute as “social benefits” there would be a lot more local charity for those who truly needed it.

I do agree that a nice tweak to birthright citizenship would be that it only applies if the mother is in the country legally, but if requires a constitutional amendment, it probably isn’t happening.

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Originally posted by slosig:

I suppose it is possible that Seattle has gotten so bad that almost all sane, productive people left, but I still think it is more likely that the commies cheated more in WA than that the population became more stupid or more insane.

Lol.
Lmao.

Seattle needs to put a helmet on their flag now. It's retarded as fuck out here, I'll believe it's gotten that much worse.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Lara Trump isn’t traveling around every state working on all of this. It’s volunteers that are organized to do so.

If you want to make a difference, you can. Get involved.

I am involved, though at home in the possibly even more Quixotic effort in Kommifornia.

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A flashback moment.

https://x.com/NowPammsy/status...sistance-day-1394%2F

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Originally posted by slosig:

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Lara Trump isn’t traveling around every state working on all of this. It’s volunteers that are organized to do so.

If you want to make a difference, you can. Get involved.

I am involved, though at home in the possibly even more Quixotic effort in Kommifornia.

There were 230,000 of us involved in the Election Integrity/Protect the Vote effort by the GOP this election cycle! I was a Ballot Challenger for the Republican Party. Honestly, one of the most consequential things Trump did during the 2024 campaign was ousting Ronna 'Romney' McDaniel getting Lara Trump and Michael Whatley at the head of the RNC as Co-chairs!

https://x.com/LaraLeaTrump/status/1853500202512007522

NY Judge Delays Trump 'Hush Money' Case Immunity Hearing

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ase-immunity-hearing

New York Judge Juan Merchan delayed a Tuesday decision on whether President-elect Trump’s conviction can withstand the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, following his election victory last week.

According to The Associated Press, Merchan told Trump’s lawyers on Nov. 12, when he was scheduled to make his decision, that he would make his ruling on Nov. 19, just days before Trump’s scheduled sentencing.

The Hill reports that Judge Merchan agreed to freeze the case until Nov. 19, newly public court records show, enabling prosecutors to respond to Trump’s demand the case be dismissed entirely now that he is president-elect.

A jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in connection to payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.

Trump’s attorneys believe his election as president compels the dismissal of his criminal prosecutions.

“The stay, and dismissal, are necessary to avoid unconstitutional impediments to President Trump’s ability to govern,” Trump attorney Emil Bove wrote in an email to the judge.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office agreed to delay the proceedings as they assess how to respond to Trump’s demand.

“The People agree that these are unprecedented circumstances and that the arguments raised by defense counsel in correspondence to the People on Friday require careful consideration,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo wrote to the judge.

Trump's sentencing was originally scheduled for July 11th, but it was delayed until September 18. Merchan delayed the sentencing date again until after the Nov. 5 presidential election to avoid the appearance of attempting to influence the outcome.

Trump's sentencing is now scheduled for Nov. 26.

As Jonathan Turley opines on X:

The Manhattan case is delayed for a week. My friend Andy McCarthy has suggested that the delay could lead to a suspension for the next term. If so, that would hardly be welcomed by the Trump team. It would be a curious resolution to keep it unresolved...

The other possibility is that in roughly a week, the court could dismiss the case. That would be warranted in my view. In any case, whatever the ruling, the ability of the Trump team needs to be able to appeal any case that is not dismissed. This case is riddled with reversible errors in my view. The one option that should be rejected, in my view, is suspending during the pendency of the new administration.

...reversible errors. I would be surprised if the option is suspension for the pendency of the coming term. It would produce the absurd status of a Damocles Sword dangling over the head of the president...

...Keep in mind that Merchan could sentence without any limitations on the movement or duties of the president. He could also dismiss a case that should never have been brought...

...The lawfare failed. Trump won. Time to return the attractions to their cages and call the circus to an end in Manhattan.

...The delay is welcomed news to allow the Trump lawyers to make the case that the matter should be dismissed. In the end, absent a dismissal, they will need a status that allows them to appeal to seek additional review.

Marco Rubio is a strange pick to me.

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Marco Rubio is a strange pick to me.

Not sure how I feel about this one either

Trump picks Kristi Noem to head Homeland Security

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12...secretary/index.html

Couple places this could go, but...


https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1856371110842896819

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Trump picks Kristi Noem to head Homeland Security

When he's done abolishing the Department of Education, Trump needs to abolish Homeland Security. There is no need for yet another layer of bureaucracy, and it would go a long way in reducing the deficit.

Agree. Homeland Security is another bloated unnecessary federal agency that W created out of the GWOT.

Just a thought...

Every single senator and house member up for re-election in 2 years needs to go on Joe Rogan before the mid-terms. Corporate media is dead as is Hollywood.

Tony.