{"id":120034,"date":"2025-05-22T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/22\/trump-not-too-thrilled-about-rule-of-law-theme-thats-taken-over-law-school-commencements\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:10:30","slug":"trump-not-too-thrilled-about-rule-of-law-theme-thats-taken-over-law-school-commencements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/22\/trump-not-too-thrilled-about-rule-of-law-theme-thats-taken-over-law-school-commencements\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Not Too Thrilled About \u2018Rule Of Law\u2019 Theme That\u2019s Taken Over Law School Commencements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><u>Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/quote-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quote of the Day<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>[Trump] will always stand for law and order. Leftist commencement speakers that ignored the previous administration\u2019s egregious legal abuses against President Trump have no credibility today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><em>\u2014 White House spokesperson Harrison Fields, in comments given to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/rule-law-takes-center-stage-law-school-commencements-2025-05-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a>, concerning the overarching \u201crule of law\u201d theme that has dominated law school commencement ceremonies this spring. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-441281\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky.jpg?resize=150%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Staci Zaretsky\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/staci-zaretsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Staci Zaretsky<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to <a href=\"mailto:staci@abovethelaw.com\">email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/stacizaretsky.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bluesky<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X\/Twitter<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@stacizaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/staci-zaretsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(Opens in a new window)<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/trump-not-too-thrilled-about-rule-of-law-theme-thats-taken-over-law-school-commencements\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Not Too Thrilled About \u2018Rule Of Law\u2019 Theme That\u2019s Taken Over Law School Commencements<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/08\/trump-sad-300x209.jpg?resize=300%2C209&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Photo by PAUL J. RICHARDS\/AFP\/Getty Images)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"block-d36072d9-2666-4de7-928f-05b3309c1f72\"><em><u>Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/quote-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Quote of the Day(Opens in a new window)<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>[Trump] will always stand for law and order. Leftist commencement speakers that ignored the previous administration\u2019s egregious legal abuses against President Trump have no credibility today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><em>\u2014 White House spokesperson Harrison Fields, in comments given to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/rule-law-takes-center-stage-law-school-commencements-2025-05-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters(Opens in a new window)<\/a>, concerning the overarching \u201crule of law\u201d theme that has dominated law school commencement ceremonies this spring. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Staci Zaretsky\" class=\"wp-image-441281\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"block-6a951eef-9160-4fde-8c25-d3ef54b14bbd\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/staci-zaretsky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Staci Zaretsky(Opens in a new window)<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#83f0f7e2e0eac3e2e1ecf5e6f7ebe6efe2f4ade0ecee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. 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Leftist commencement speakers that ignored the previous administration\u2019s egregious legal abuses against President Trump have no credibility today. \u2014 White House spokesperson Harrison Fields, in comments given to Reuters(Opens in a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":120024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-Pe3ThL.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}