Pentagon Declares War On Good Law Schools Because Of Woke – Above the Law

Having watched the Division of Justice lose scores of profession prosecutors and scale back itself to taking purposes over DMs and bringing dance photographers out of retirement, the Division of Protection determined to get in on the motion by chopping future army legal professionals off from the nation’s greatest regulation faculties. You may say the DOD noticed the DOJ change into a nationwide laughing inventory of authorized incompetence and stated, “maintain my beer,” besides you’ll be able to’t think about Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth placing down a beer that simply. Persevering with the DOD’s performative anti-intellectual purge — which started with its public break with Harvard College — the Pentagon has knowledgeable active-duty service members that over 30 elite universities are actually deemed “average to excessive threat” and due to this fact ineligible for DOD tuition help packages.

An e mail despatched to Funded Authorized Schooling Program and Unfunded Authorized Schooling Program candidates from the Decide Advocate Recruiting Workplace knowledgeable the FLEP candidates — who obtain funding for his or her schooling from the DOD — that if they’ve utilized or been accepted by any of the faculties on the record, they have to withdraw their purposes and reject their admissions. As the just about assuredly flustered JAG officers word, candidates want to do that instantly as a result of “we all know that some utility deadlines have handed.” UFLEP candidates — who pay out of pocket for varsity whereas remaining lively responsibility — will not be being ordered to right away withdraw, however are strongly inspired to take action.

A screenshot posted on-line by @CounterIntel lays out the record, which is proscribed to non-public establishments. The e-mail informs candidates {that a} record of banned public faculties will comply with… even additional past utility drop lifeless dates:

Powerful break for Brown and Princeton who’ve pissed off the administration a lot that it banned regulation faculties that don’t even exist. Identical goes for Carnegie Mellon College, MIT, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Florida Institute of Expertise, and Hawaii Pacific College. The London Faculty of Economics in some way catches a wild transatlantic stray, in all probability as a result of some middling civilian DOD official’s Cntrl+F seek for “Trans” introduced up the LSE. These faculties in all probability ended up on this e mail as a result of the JAG workplace copied and pasted the complete record of Hegseth’s verboten grad faculties into this record to with out bothering to edit it.

The record consists of your complete T14 aside from the College of Chicago and the three public regulation faculties among the many top-tier — Berkeley, Michigan, and UVA. Presumably all three of the general public faculties will be part of the Trump administration’s banned record except in some way BERKELEY of all faculties escapes Hegseth’s bleary eyed, anti-woke gaze.

Keep in mind when Columbia and Northwestern utterly capitulated to the Trump administration? Loads of good that did them, as they nonetheless landed on this record. It’s virtually as if negotiating with authoritarians has by no means labored within the historical past of ever.

The Protection Division hopes to spin this as taking away a handout to elite universities that train “globalist and radical ideologies,” however these packages represent investments within the army’s authorized infrastructure and assist the army recruit and retain the perfect and brightest potential legal professionals who will in any other case bolt for the non-public sector. When you’re a younger officer realizing that your LSAT rating might earn a Yale Legislation schooling, however the DOD relegates you to ASSLaw or Ave Maria — you’re bolting as quickly as your time is up. America’s army thrives by attractive elite expertise to serve in crucial roles.

And, in time, this typically spills out into the non-public sector when expert JAG officers depart the army armed with elite levels and sensible expertise.

Personally, I’ve written a number of suggestions on behalf of former college students each to get into the FLEP program within the first place after which to get into high regulation faculties. That the federal government would purge its future ranks of legal professionals with elite resumes speaks to the administration’s embrace of nationwide decline. However I assume in the event that they’re going to cut back the JAG corps to stop-gap immigration judges — and punish any immigration judges train impartial judgment — they don’t really feel they want good legal professionals. Sadly, they’re making a misplaced era of stellar attorneys that can bypass service as a result of the DOD needs to penalize universities for instructing that slavery occurred and researching vaccines.

Of word, Hegseth has levels from Princeton and Harvard, driving house the epic ranges of “I obtained mine, screw the following child on the ladder” power radiating off this coverage.

“Let’s not overlook: officers from these identical ‘excessive threat’ faculties shaped the spine of American army management in WWII and WWI,” @CounterIntel, an open-source intelligence social media account famous. “Now we’re telling our greatest and brightest they’ll’t comply with of their footsteps?”

A army supply talking to CNN provided an equally blunt evaluation:

The army official stated the steerage was akin to prohibiting officers from acquiring a high tier schooling, and stated it amounted to the Pentagon “trying to purge mind, range of pondering, and significant thought from the army.”

“The general concern is that we wish army officers and non-commissioned officers to have the flexibility to critically assume and problem concepts … and a few of these establishments are nice locations to try this whether or not you agree with liberal or conservative thought or not,” stated the supply accustomed to the matter. “It appears each very delicate — oh these phrases and concepts scare me, so I’ll preclude folks from partaking — but additionally short-sighted and is producing confusion.”

Always remember that the conservative is essentially the most delicate snowflake within the social ecosystem.

Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Legislation and co-host of Pondering Like A Lawyer. Be at liberty to e mail any suggestions, questions, or feedback. Observe him on Twitter or Bluesky should you’re excited by regulation, politics, and a wholesome dose of faculty sports activities information. Joe additionally serves as a Managing Director at RPN Government Search.