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In reply to the discussion: Apparently Trump crossed some kind of line with Republicans with his postponing of elections which i [View all]mahatmakanejeeves
(57,512 posts)3. Steven Calabresi beginning to think maybe Trump not such a good idea.
I just read that tweet.
SuburbanWhitestyleDreamHat Retweeted
When arch conservative law professor Steven Calabresi, who blasted the Mueller investigation as "unconstitutional," calls Donald Trump a fascist and suggests that his recent tweet is grounds for his immediate impeachment and removal, that is really something.
Link to tweet
Steven G. Calabresi
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Biography
Calabresi graduated from the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island in 1976. He then attended Yale College, graduating cum laude in 1980. He received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he was the Note & Topics Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he served as law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter of the US Appellate Court, Second Circuit, Judge Robert H. Bork of the D.C. Circuit, and Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court.
While at Yale Law School, Calabresi and two Yale College friends, Lee Liberman Otis and David McIntosh, founded the Yale chapter of the Federalist Society, one of three original chapters of the Society. In 2019, he was chairman of the Society's board of directors. Calabresi is an active libertarian-conservative author and commentator.
Calabresi joined the faculty of Northwestern Law School in 1990, and has taught there since then. He has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School (in the Fall semesters of 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016), and a Visiting Professor of Political Theory at Brown University, where he has taught since 2010.
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Biography
Calabresi graduated from the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island in 1976. He then attended Yale College, graduating cum laude in 1980. He received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he was the Note & Topics Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he served as law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter of the US Appellate Court, Second Circuit, Judge Robert H. Bork of the D.C. Circuit, and Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court.
While at Yale Law School, Calabresi and two Yale College friends, Lee Liberman Otis and David McIntosh, founded the Yale chapter of the Federalist Society, one of three original chapters of the Society. In 2019, he was chairman of the Society's board of directors. Calabresi is an active libertarian-conservative author and commentator.
Calabresi joined the faculty of Northwestern Law School in 1990, and has taught there since then. He has been a visiting professor at Yale Law School (in the Fall semesters of 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016), and a Visiting Professor of Political Theory at Brown University, where he has taught since 2010.
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Apparently Trump crossed some kind of line with Republicans with his postponing of elections which i [View all]
soothsayer
Jul 2020
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Interesting. They didn't show up in any June campaign contributions. But he kinda lost them in 2018
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2020
#22
They're just ticked off he's breaking what they've built for all these decades.
herding cats
Jul 2020
#20
a more complicated reason they are royally pissed and would shout it down
yellowdogintexas
Jul 2020
#39