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(Photo by Kyblueimages, CC-Zero, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Judge_Amul_Thapar_(cropped).jpg"> Wikimedia Commons</a>)</em></p> </p> </div>   <p>“Anti-originalist” law professors dominate law schools, and they aren’t equipping students with the practical knowledge that they need to make originalist arguments, a conservative federal appeals judge said last week in a lecture hosted by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.</p> <p>Judge Amul Thapar of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati said conservatives could spur change by withholding donations to the schools, report <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/judge-urges-law-school-donation-halt-until-originalism-taught">Bloomberg Law</a>, <a href="https://www.law360.com/articles/2072193/thapar-flays-law-schools-attys-for-anti-originalist-mindsets">Law360</a> and Reuters via the <a href="https://originalismblog.typepad.com/the-originalism-blog/2024/10/judge-amul-thapar-hire-more-originalist-law-professorsmichael-ramsey.html">Originalism Blog</a>. <a href="https://howappealing.abovethelaw.com/2024/10/24/#226713">How Appealing</a> links to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/L__r8kPzO2Y">the video</a>.</p> <p>Taxpayers can also play a role by demanding that publicly funded law schools stop “pursuing their own political agendas,” Thapar said, according to Reuters.</p> <p>Bloomberg Law and Law360 highlighted this remark: “Make no mistake: Money talks. Only when the taxpayers and donors alike demand it will law schools start to change.”</p> <p>Originalist judges interpret the Constitution based on its meaning as understood at the time it was written. Thapar, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, was on Trump’s <a href="https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/trump_reportedly_interviewed_these_four_judges_for_the_supreme_court_blog_s">U.S. Supreme Court short list</a>.</p> <p>Thapar said law professors at too many law schools tell their students that a court’s originalist analysis “is just a smokescreen for some nefarious political goal.”</p> <p>The lack of training, Thapar said, means that lawyers are missing originalist arguments that could benefit their clients, according to Bloomberg Law and Law360.</p> <p>“It’s amazing how many times my colleagues and I say, ‘If they only would have made argument X, their client might have had a chance,’” Thapar said.</p> <p> <script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script><script async src=https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js crossorigin="anonymous"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8131951208050677" data-ad-slot="5471927720" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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