If you haven’t read this piece in Above The Law today, please ensure you do.
The AG visits Georgetown but is shielded from awkward students and awkward questions.
Here’s a taster
There was no small amount of excitement as word started getting around Georgetown Law that Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be visiting campus today to give a little talk and even take some questions from inquisitive law students. This kind of direct access to high-profile legal policymakers is precisely why a prospective lawyer chooses to attend Georgetown — no matter what the rankings say!
But several tipsters pointed out to Above the Law that there was something fishy about this Sessions talk from the get go. Despite a drop-in from the nation’s top lawyer, the school hadn’t done any advanced publicity and most folks were entirely in the dark about the speech until a quick press release less than a day before the event:
There was a press release this morning (http://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/press-releases/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-at-georgetown-law.cfm), and there was a lottery for student attendance which wasn’t publicized at all – the sign-up was only open for a couple of hours…
That’s certainly a little weird. Also a little awkward was the announcement that all questions of the man in charge of the federal justice system would be pre-screened by Professor Randy Barnett, seemingly to shield the Attorney General of the United States from all but the most forgiving of softballs. Maybe there are some half-hearted defenses of “protecting the Attorney General’s time,” an excuse easily solved by putting a hard cap on the question-and-answer period. Whatever the party line, this reads like they’re setting up an antiseptic propaganda set piece…….
Read the rest at http://abovethelaw.com/2017/09/law-school-snowflakes-demand-safe-space-over-jeff-sessions-talk/
