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How Is JD Vance Shaming Yale Law School Today?
Well, technically yesterday. The post How Is JD Vance Shaming Yale Law School Today? appeared first on Above the Law.
Fresh off his whirlwind tour of Greenland, Yale Law School’s own very special boy JD Vance decided to flex his degree by wading into the legal particulars of immigration.
It started with a Twitter post by Politico reporter Kyle Cheney:
Indeed it is not. Different legal standards and so on and so on. Anyway, Vance stormed into the chat with a vigor usually reserved for publicly planning a Yemen bombing:
“Under the Biden administration.” 2019.
What is it with conservative commentary and an inability to grasp linear time? Donald Trump was, in fact, the president in 2019. Jonathan Turley pulls this one a lot, while he scrounges around to concoct a Charlie Kelly in the Mailroom style basis for prosecuting Joe Biden based on emails from years when he wasn’t in public office. Now Donald Trump is talking about a “rematch” with Barack Obama… what is happening with these people and basic perception of time?
But aside from that nitpick, Vance is also substantively wrong!
In fact, the person in question was never convicted and the “evidence” behind the bond order could not and would not stand up in any effort to convict him of anything. A confidential informant tagged him as a gang member. Which, even if mere membership were sufficient to deport someone, it is not a crime in and of itself and “dude pointed at him” is nowhere near enough to send a guy to a slave labor camp.
Shouldn’t a Yale Law School graduate understand the difference between convictions and random assertions from confidential informants? In fairness, Yale Law doesn’t really do that as much as it teaches you what Descartes might have thought about the Dormant Commerce Clause. But still, shouldn’t someone with a lick of practical legal knowledge stop him before he runs in like it’s Ashley Home Furniture’s Discount Days?
But the chef’s-fucking-kiss on this is that Vance sent his “analysis” at 8:48 a.m. yesterday. By 1:55 p.m….
Man, the administration really hates this guy.
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