{"id":145158,"date":"2026-03-02T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/02\/when-it-comes-to-judges-trump-is-an-ass-man\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:10:48","slug":"when-it-comes-to-judges-trump-is-an-ass-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/02\/when-it-comes-to-judges-trump-is-an-ass-man\/","title":{"rendered":"When It Comes To Judges, Trump Is An ASS Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Pentagon announced that they\u2019d kneecaped themselves by refusing to give money to law students accepted to the country\u2019s most prestigious and highly ranked law schools<\/a>, it became a lot less obvious where they\u2019d do their recruiting from. Before the last few weeks, the Department boasted the best and the brightest placed at elite law schools. Now, our best bet for figuring out which law schools still enjoy the Pentagon\u2019s favor might be to pay attention to the schools Trump pulls his judges from. And as far as he\u2019s concerned, petty things like adherence to the Constitution mean nothing compared to the new ideal: undying fealty to the Republican party. <\/p>\n

And few schools highlight that devotion as boldly as the one named after a Supreme Court justice remembered for \u201cpure applesauce\u201d and a terrible dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em> more concerned with name calling than legal analysis<\/a>. That school of course is George Mason University\u2019s Antonin Scalia Law School \u2014 which was originally and infamously named the \u201cAntonin Scalia School of Law\u201d and will therefore forever be known around here as ASS Law. <\/p>\n

And when it comes to judicial placement, ASS shook its way to the top under Trump\u2019s leadership. Bloomberg Law<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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Trump has tapped more graduates from George Mason University\u2019s Antonin Scalia Law School to be judges in his second term than from any other law school in the nation, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of federal judiciary data on judicial appointments.<\/p>\n

Three Scalia Law graduates were confirmed last year to federal district court judgeships, while two other alumni were announced as nominees earlier this month. If confirmed, those five Scalia Law alumni will outnumber Trump\u2019s second-term judicial appointees from Harvard and Yale\u2019s law schools combined.<\/p>\n

The new appointments show the administration is starting to turn to a school historically known as being more conservative than others, and is putting less of an emphasis on elite academic credentials when it comes to picking future judges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Judge placement has yuge consequences. There\u2019s the obvious short term benefit of appointing someone that will seal the documents you\u2019d rather not ever see the light of day<\/a>, but there\u2019s also the generational impact of knowing that the students that clerk for these judges will carry the flame. Unfortunately, that flame is likely to consist of shameless plugs for how willing you are to side with batshit opinions if it means avoiding the president publicly shaming you and avoiding the cuck chair<\/a>. If he excoriated 3 Republican Supreme Court justices as \u201cfools and lapdogs for the RINOs and the radical left democrats<\/a>\u201d because they had the nerve to not let him usurp Congress\u2019 constitutionally mandated power of the purse, what type of jurisprudence commitments will his new judicial nominees have? Judge James Ho was aiming at the current roster of judges, but to borrow his words for this situation, prepare for judges with \u201c[an] overinflated view of their intelligence and their abilities.\u201d<\/a> And while I have no hate for ASS law graduates specifically<\/em>, the Trump administration doesn\u2019t have the best track record<\/a> when it comes to choosing which judges to vest with power.<\/p>\n

George Mason Tops Harvard, Yale as Trump Judge Law School Source <\/a>[Bloomberg Law]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Pentagon Declares War On Good Law Schools Because Of Woke<\/a><\/p>\n

DOJ Ditches ABA Judicial Vetting Because \u2018Being Qualified\u2019 Is Too Woke<\/a><\/p>\n

In Shocking Twist, Judge Aileen Cannon Sides With Donald Trump. Again.<\/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 boat builder who is learning to swim and is interested in rhetoric, Spinozists and humor. Getting back in to cycling wouldn\u2019t hurt either. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post When It Comes To Judges, Trump Is An ASS Man<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the Pentagon announced that they\u2019d kneecaped themselves by refusing to give money to law students accepted to the country\u2019s most prestigious and highly ranked law schools<\/a>, it became a lot less obvious where they\u2019d do their recruiting from. Before the last few weeks, the Department boasted the best and the brightest placed at elite law schools. Now, our best bet for figuring out which law schools still enjoy the Pentagon\u2019s favor might be to pay attention to the schools Trump pulls his judges from. And as far as he\u2019s concerned, petty things like adherence to the Constitution mean nothing compared to the new ideal: undying fealty to the Republican party. <\/p>\n

And few schools highlight that devotion as boldly as the one named after a Supreme Court justice remembered for \u201cpure applesauce\u201d and a terrible dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em> more concerned with name calling than legal analysis<\/a>. That school of course is George Mason University\u2019s Antonin Scalia Law School \u2014 which was originally and infamously named the \u201cAntonin Scalia School of Law\u201d and will therefore forever be known around here as ASS Law. <\/p>\n

And when it comes to judicial placement, ASS shook its way to the top under Trump\u2019s leadership. Bloomberg Law<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

\n

Trump has tapped more graduates from George Mason University\u2019s Antonin Scalia Law School to be judges in his second term than from any other law school in the nation, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of federal judiciary data on judicial appointments.<\/p>\n

Three Scalia Law graduates were confirmed last year to federal district court judgeships, while two other alumni were announced as nominees earlier this month. If confirmed, those five Scalia Law alumni will outnumber Trump\u2019s second-term judicial appointees from Harvard and Yale\u2019s law schools combined.<\/p>\n

The new appointments show the administration is starting to turn to a school historically known as being more conservative than others, and is putting less of an emphasis on elite academic credentials when it comes to picking future judges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Judge placement has yuge consequences. There\u2019s the obvious short term benefit of appointing someone that will seal the documents you\u2019d rather not ever see the light of day<\/a>, but there\u2019s also the generational impact of knowing that the students that clerk for these judges will carry the flame. Unfortunately, that flame is likely to consist of shameless plugs for how willing you are to side with batshit opinions if it means avoiding the president publicly shaming you and avoiding the cuck chair<\/a>. If he excoriated 3 Republican Supreme Court justices as \u201cfools and lapdogs for the RINOs and the radical left democrats<\/a>\u201d because they had the nerve to not let him usurp Congress\u2019 constitutionally mandated power of the purse, what type of jurisprudence commitments will his new judicial nominees have? Judge James Ho was aiming at the current roster of judges, but to borrow his words for this situation, prepare for judges with \u201c[an] overinflated view of their intelligence and their abilities.\u201d<\/a> And while I have no hate for ASS law graduates specifically<\/em>, the Trump administration doesn\u2019t have the best track record<\/a> when it comes to choosing which judges to vest with power.<\/p>\n

George Mason Tops Harvard, Yale as Trump Judge Law School Source <\/a>[Bloomberg Law]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Pentagon Declares War On Good Law Schools Because Of Woke<\/a><\/p>\n

DOJ Ditches ABA Judicial Vetting Because \u2018Being Qualified\u2019 Is Too Woke<\/a><\/p>\n

In Shocking Twist, Judge Aileen Cannon Sides With Donald Trump. Again.<\/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 boat builder who is learning to swim and is interested in rhetoric, Spinozists and humor. Getting back in to cycling wouldn\u2019t hurt either. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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