{"id":135138,"date":"2025-10-14T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/14\/fasorp-drops-university-of-michigan-scare-tactics\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:06:07","slug":"fasorp-drops-university-of-michigan-scare-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/14\/fasorp-drops-university-of-michigan-scare-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"FASORP Drops University Of Michigan Scare Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

FASORP is a group that takes itself very seriously \u2014 which is why it tickles my soul to know that my first story on them was written on April 1st<\/a>. The organization\u2019s whole identity is centered on not being good enough and making it other people\u2019s problem. They go at length to perform their not-good-enoughness, not just in that they are comprised of faculty and students who weren\u2019t good enough to get their papers published or onto law review, but their law suit history is just a series of failures. They failed when they sued Northwestern on behalf of White teachers who didn\u2019t even apply, their action against Harvard didn\u2019t seem to go anywhere<\/a>, and most recently they threw in the towel for their fight against University of Michigan. Reuters<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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A conservative legal group has ended a discrimination lawsuit against the University of Michigan\u2019s flagship law journal.
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FASORP voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit on Friday without explanation. The group\u2019s attorney, Jonathan Mitchell, did not immediately respond on Monday to a request for comment and more information, including on whether the case had settled. The law journal, which was due to respond to the suit by Monday, did not respond to a request for comment. The law school had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As much as I respect UMichigan\u2019s strategy of do nothing\u2026win, I wish they would have taken the hat of discipline<\/a> approach. <\/p>\n

To catch you up on the lore, FASORP\u2019s \u201cactivism\u201d ranged from advocating that law review applicants lie on their personal statements to get ahead at both UMichigan and Harvard, threatening schools to save all of their emails for a coming lawsuit or face the consequences, and the general promise to out anyone who was \u201cfemale, non-white and non-Asian, or homosexual or transgender\u201d as a \u201cDEI hire\u201d with \u201ctainted credentials.\u201d Being a right-winger committed to questions of desert must come with so much whiplash; I\u2019d recommend some Tylenol for the neck pain sustained from switching from \u201cshow me Ketanji\u2019s LSAT scores!<\/a>\u201d to \u201cBecause at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?<\/a>\u201d but apparently that causes autism now.<\/p>\n

Conservative Group Ends Discrimination Lawsuit Against Michigan Law Review <\/a>[Reuters]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Totally Serious And Not Made-Up Group Hijacks Michigan Law Listserv To \u2018Preserve Evidence\u2019 And Expose \u2018Unworthy\u2019 Students<\/a><\/p>\n

Cringe Reverse Discrimination Group Hijacks Michigan Law Listserv To Ask Students To Sprinkle A Little Fraud In Their Personal Statements<\/a><\/p>\n

Harvard Law Students Hit With Invitation To Lie On Their Law Review Personal Statements, Professors Should Speak Out On It<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post FASORP Drops University Of Michigan Scare Tactics<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FASORP is a group that takes itself very seriously \u2014 which is why it tickles my soul to know that my first story on them was written on April 1st<\/a>. The organization\u2019s whole identity is centered on not being good enough and making it other people\u2019s problem. They go at length to perform their not-good-enoughness, not just in that they are comprised of faculty and students who weren\u2019t good enough to get their papers published or onto law review, but their law suit history is just a series of failures. They failed when they sued Northwestern on behalf of White teachers who didn\u2019t even apply, their action against Harvard didn\u2019t seem to go anywhere<\/a>, and most recently they threw in the towel for their fight against University of Michigan. Reuters<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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A conservative legal group has ended a discrimination lawsuit against the University of Michigan\u2019s flagship law journal.
\u2026
FASORP voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit on Friday without explanation. The group\u2019s attorney, Jonathan Mitchell, did not immediately respond on Monday to a request for comment and more information, including on whether the case had settled. The law journal, which was due to respond to the suit by Monday, did not respond to a request for comment. The law school had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As much as I respect UMichigan\u2019s strategy of do nothing\u2026win, I wish they would have taken the hat of discipline<\/a> approach. <\/p>\n

To catch you up on the lore, FASORP\u2019s \u201cactivism\u201d ranged from advocating that law review applicants lie on their personal statements to get ahead at both UMichigan and Harvard, threatening schools to save all of their emails for a coming lawsuit or face the consequences, and the general promise to out anyone who was \u201cfemale, non-white and non-Asian, or homosexual or transgender\u201d as a \u201cDEI hire\u201d with \u201ctainted credentials.\u201d Being a right-winger committed to questions of desert must come with so much whiplash; I\u2019d recommend some Tylenol for the neck pain sustained from switching from \u201cshow me Ketanji\u2019s LSAT scores!<\/a>\u201d to \u201cBecause at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?<\/a>\u201d but apparently that causes autism now.<\/p>\n

Conservative Group Ends Discrimination Lawsuit Against Michigan Law Review <\/a>[Reuters]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Totally Serious And Not Made-Up Group Hijacks Michigan Law Listserv To \u2018Preserve Evidence\u2019 And Expose \u2018Unworthy\u2019 Students<\/a><\/p>\n

Cringe Reverse Discrimination Group Hijacks Michigan Law Listserv To Ask Students To Sprinkle A Little Fraud In Their Personal Statements<\/a><\/p>\n

Harvard Law Students Hit With Invitation To Lie On Their Law Review Personal Statements, Professors Should Speak Out On It<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post FASORP Drops University Of Michigan Scare Tactics<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FASORP is a group that takes itself very seriously \u2014 which is why it tickles my soul to know that my first story on them was written on April 1st. The organization\u2019s whole identity is centered on not being good enough and making it other people\u2019s problem. They go at length to perform their not-good-enoughness, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135116,"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-135138","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\/10\/Chris-Williams-2025-YLvEU1.jpg?fit=512%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135138","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=135138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}