More of this, please

Thanks to the public sector lawyer friend who sent me this (they are not an alum of Georgetown Law).*

The background: Ed Martin, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to the Dean of Georgetown Law School saying, basically, stop seeking classes that represent America's great diversity or your alumni will never work in this town again.

Dean William Treanor wasn't having it. Since he's a lawyer, he responded in ways that - paragraph by paragraph - point out the unconstitutionality of Martin's threats. Treanor's letter is below. You can read the whole thing - with annotations for the non–lawyers among us, at this site. If you want to read the Interim U.S. Attorney's embarassing excuse for legalese, it's at that same link.

*I used "they" as a singular pronoun to deliberately mess with the small brains using the White House as a car lot. Maybe my friend is trans. Maybe they're not. Maybe it has nothing to do with anything and could you please stop caring about other people's identity? Isn't the GOP against identity politics and language policing? Not.

**The two schools I attended are not doing Dean Treanor proud. The law school at my alma mater summarily put a researcher on administrative leave when told she was trouble by the same people unconstitutionally holding Mahmoud Khalil. The other one hosts conferences on pandemics featuring people who argue I'm nothing more than a necessary death. Not a lot of alumni giving going on here (I, too, can make shameless threats).