[Alumni-chat] D.C. law schools

[Sistersara at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/14/2008 11:55:51 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
wasb at albany.edu writes:

Sister  Sara is regularly very thorough, but I offer the following 
commentary,  including a "gentle corrective" on some facts.



Aah Steve.... You know recently I discovered another quasi legal education  
system in our Nation's Capitol, and that was an unanticipated outcome of  
researching the interesting relationship between Ashcroft & Gonzales's  Justice 
Department and Regents University, the product of Pat Robertson's  efforts.  
There were at the time of Patrick Leahy's return to the  Chairmanship of the 
Senate Judiciary, about 125 recent graduates of Regents  University holding 
political appointments, with a fair number of others farmed  out to various US 
Attorney's offices around the country, holding positions as  AUSA's, but in a number 
of cases so fresh out of Law School, they hadn't yet  taken the bar exams.  
Turns out Robertson had purchased some townhouses  somewhat off Capitol Hill -- 
not the high rent part, and had them off the tax  rolls as religious 
property, but in fact he was renting rooms and units in a  sort of Christian Group 
Home for Recent Regents Grads -- an otherwise commercial  rental operation.  (He 
also had Regents grads at the Environmental  Protection Agency.)  Apparently 
virtually all of them were so fresh out of  school, they had not passed the bar 
yet -- so one of the stated purposes of this  arrangement was so they could 
communally study for the Bar, when not  administering Justice.  The whole idea, 
apparently was to put them in DoJ  as Political Appointees, and then as 
regular civil service jobs opened up, shift  them to those, thus leaving a 
permanent Department of Justice for the next  administration, fully stocked with Pat 
Robertson's folk.  Leahy apparently  has dealt firmly with this in the change 
of AG's, but didn't want a lot of  publicity that could be spun as some sort of 
an attack on Christians.  But  the fact is that those old traditional law 
schools such as Georgetown and George  Washington were pissed as hell about it, 
because they too want to place their  students, but on something like a merit 
basis.  Apparently Howard was so  pissed they almost filed a law suit.  The 
Senate got into some of the  Personnel Records, and discovered that a Howard JD 
was a flag to reject the  applicant.  After all, any Howard Grad probably was 
one of those "Liberals"  needing to be ousted, root and branch.  I am told that 
Leahy, who is  pretty tight with the Jesuits over at Georgetown (I think he 
is a Georgetown  Alumni), got a call within hours of it being clear he would be 
chair of  Judiciary from his friends, asking him to correct the personnel 
system at  DoJ.  But it was much worse than even they knew.  Anyhow, as they say  
with terrorist plots, it has been disrupted.  
 
The point of it all, apparently, was to bring a whole raft of Election and  
Voting Fraud cases all over the country in the run-up to the 2008 election, 
with  the intent to disrupt Voter Registration efforts by Labor Unions, groups 
like  Acorn, and candidate-party efforts -- setting a narrative that plans were 
afoot  to steal the 2008 election.  Hopefully this is fully derailed.  But  
given the story, you have to assume a similar pattern would be likely in other  
professions represented in Government.  
 
Something tells me relatively few Antiochians would enjoy playing in this  
sandbox.  
 
 



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