Author: TSA Press

Justice
continues
to
be
meted
out
for
those
who
participated
in
the
January
6th
attack
on
the
U.S.
Capitol,
and
one
of
the
defendants
sentenced
just
last
week
was
a
recent
law
school
admittee.
For
someone
who
had
aspirations
to
enter
the
legal
profession,
this
isn’t
the
side
of
the
law
you
want
to
be
on.

As
first
reported
by

CBS
42,
would-be
lawyer
James
Grant
had
been
accepted
to
the
University
of
Alabama
School
of
Law
in
the
Fall
of
2021.
In
his

sentencing
memo,
Grant’s
lawyer,
Robert
Feitel,
states
that
his
client
was
accepted
to
the
Top
50
law
school
with
a
full
tuition
scholarship.
CBS
has
additional
details:

Grant,
31,
of
Cary,
North
Carolina,
climbed
into
the
Capitol
through
a
broken
window
and
entered
a
senator’s
office.
After
his
arrest,
he
told
investigators
that
the
FBI
was
“the
biggest
threat
to
Americans”
and
that
prosecuting
Jan.
6
rioters
was
“a
big
witch
hunt.”

One
of
the
first
to
breach
the
interior
of
the
Capitol,
according
to
his
own
sentencing
memo,
Grant
“wandered
through
the
halls,
entered
a
Senator’s
office,
where
he
was
photographed
sitting
calmly.”
Here’s
that
photo,
where
Grant
can
be
seen
giving
the
peace
sign:

As
related
in
his
sentencing
memo,
Grant’s
father
would
later
go
on
to
tell
a
probation
officer
that
his
son
had
“made
an
incredibly
stupid
decision
(regarding
his
conduct
in
the
instant
offense)
which
is
not
emblematic
of
his
character.”

Although
prosecutors
asked
that
Grant
be
sentenced
to
nine
years
behind
bars,
he
was
instead
sentenced
to
three
years
for
his
crimes.
His
attorney
said
it
was
“almost
incomprehensible”
that
such
a
lengthy
sentence
had
been
recommended
for
his
client.

Grant
has
been
behind
bars
since
January
2022
after
he
was
charged
with
driving
while
drunk
with
an
assault
rifle
in
his
car
and
will
get
credit
for
the
time
he
has
already
spent
locked
up.

“I
think
I’ve
been
sufficiently
punished,”
Grant
told
the
judge.

Grant’s
attorney
said
he
should
be
eligible
for
release
almost
immediately
after
getting
credit
for
time
served
and
good
behavior
in
jail.

Per
his
own
sentencing
memo,
“The
opportunity
to
attend
law
school
may
well
be
lost
to
James
forever.”
Will
Alabama
Law
be
willing
give
a
convicted
J6
defendant
a
second
chance?
We
suppose
we’ll
have
to
see.

Man
sentenced
to
prison
for
taking
part
in
Jan.
6
riot
had
been
accepted
to
Alabama
law
school
before
arrest
[CBS
42]

---

Staci
Zaretsky is
a
senior
editor
at
Above
the
Law,
where
she’s
worked
since
2011.
She’d
love
to
hear
from
you,
so
please
feel
free
to

email
her
with
any
tips,
questions,
comments,
or
critiques.
You
can
follow
her
on

X/Twitter
and

Threads
or
connect
with
her
on

LinkedIn.

Justice
continues
to
be
meted
out
for
those
who
participated
in
the
January
6th
attack
on
the
U.S.
Capitol,
and
one
of
the
defendants
sentenced
just
last
week
was
a
recent
law
school
admittee.
For
someone
who
had
aspirations
to
enter
the
legal
profession,
this
isn’t
the
side
of
the
law
you
want
to
be
on.

As
first
reported
by

CBS
42,
would-be
lawyer
James
Grant
had
been
accepted
to
the
University
of
Alabama
School
of
Law
in
the
Fall
of
2021.
In
his

sentencing
memo,
Grant’s
lawyer,
Robert
Feitel,
states
that
his
client
was
accepted
to
the
Top
50
law
school
with
a
full
tuition
scholarship.
CBS
has
additional
details:

Grant,
31,
of
Cary,
North
Carolina,
climbed
into
the
Capitol
through
a
broken
window
and
entered
a
senator’s
office.
After
his
arrest,
he
told
investigators
that
the
FBI
was
“the
biggest
threat
to
Americans”
and
that
prosecuting
Jan.
6
rioters
was
“a
big
witch
hunt.”

One
of
the
first
to
breach
the
interior
of
the
Capitol,
according
to
his
own
sentencing
memo,
Grant
“wandered
through
the
halls,
entered
a
Senator’s
office,
where
he
was
photographed
sitting
calmly.”
Here’s
that
photo,
where
Grant
can
be
seen
giving
the
peace
sign:

As
related
in
his
sentencing
memo,
Grant’s
father
would
later
go
on
to
tell
a
probation
officer
that
his
son
had
“made
an
incredibly
stupid
decision
(regarding
his
conduct
in
the
instant
offense)
which
is
not
emblematic
of
his
character.”

Although
prosecutors
asked
that
Grant
be
sentenced
to
nine
years
behind
bars,
he
was
instead
sentenced
to
three
years
for
his
crimes.
His
attorney
said
it
was
“almost
incomprehensible”
that
such
a
lengthy
sentence
had
been
recommended
for
his
client.

Grant
has
been
behind
bars
since
January
2022
after
he
was
charged
with
driving
while
drunk
with
an
assault
rifle
in
his
car
and
will
get
credit
for
the
time
he
has
already
spent
locked
up.

“I
think
I’ve
been
sufficiently
punished,”
Grant
told
the
judge.

Grant’s
attorney
said
he
should
be
eligible
for
release
almost
immediately
after
getting
credit
for
time
served
and
good
behavior
in
jail.

Per
his
own
sentencing
memo,
“The
opportunity
to
attend
law
school
may
well
be
lost
to
James
forever.”
Will
Alabama
Law
be
willing
give
a
convicted
J6
defendant
a
second
chance?
We
suppose
we’ll
have
to
see.

Man
sentenced
to
prison
for
taking
part
in
Jan.
6
riot
had
been
accepted
to
Alabama
law
school
before
arrest
[CBS
42]

---

Staci
Zaretsky is
a
senior
editor
at
Above
the
Law,
where
she’s
worked
since
2011.
She’d
love
to
hear
from
you,
so
please
feel
free
to

email
her
with
any
tips,
questions,
comments,
or
critiques.
You
can
follow
her
on

X/Twitter
and

Threads
or
connect
with
her
on

LinkedIn.

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3.

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Security

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Reuters
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Updates

• New
  reports
  based
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  Report
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Penn
Law
School
professor

Amy
Wax
got
off
remarkably
light
when
a
hearing
board
recommended
a
one-year
slap
on
the
wrist
for
her
persistent
attacks
on
the
integrity
of
the
school
and
its
minority
students.
But
she
appealed
anyway
only
for
the
full
procedure
to

reach
the
same
conclusion
as
the
hearing
board.

She
still
has
a
job
and
her
tenure
remains
intact.
Not
a
bad
outcome
for
Wax.
While
the
professor
certainly
would
rather
suffer
no
sanction,
having
beaten
back
the
tenure
challenge,
she
can
carry
on
reasonably
secure
in
the
knowledge
that
there’s
nothing
she
can
do
that
can
get
her
much
more
than
a
temporary
pay
cut.

Technically,
the
final
sanction
is
one
year
at
half
pay
and
summer
pay,
a
public
reprimand,
the
loss
of
her
named
chair,
and
a
requirement
that
she
must
always
clarify
that
she’s
not
speaking
for
or
as
a
member
of
Penn
Law.
Very
interested
to
see
how
that
last
bit
gets
interpreted
when
she
appears
on
an
hour-long
webcast
with
“Penn
Law
School
Professor”
slapped
on
a
chyron
the
whole
time.

It’s
been
a
long
journey
to
this
point.
In
2017,
Penn
Law
School
professor
Amy
Wax
wrote
an
article

extolling
the
superiority
of
white
culture.
The
school
did
nothing
at
that
juncture,
respecting
her
free
speech
rights
over
their
interest
as
an
employer
in
not
having
a
professor
publicly
suggest
that
the
school’s
minority
students
are
inferior.
Then
she
publicly
declared

Black
students
don’t
graduate
in
the
top
half
of
the
Penn
class
despite,
obviously,
having
no
support
for
this
claim.
Making
up
stuff
about
the
school
and
undermining
the
integrity
of
the
school’s
blind
grading
policy
got
her
suspended
from
teaching
1Ls.
From
there,
she
said
the
country
needs
“fewer
Asians,”
blamed

women
for
ruining
universities,
and

brought
a
white
nationalist
to
campus.

At
that
point,
the
school
had
enough
and
conducted
an
independent
investigation
and
ultimately
went
to
the
Faculty
Senate,
settling
on
the
lackluster
sanctions
now
affirmed
on
appeal.

Oh,
and
because
the
school
year
has
already
started,
these
won’t
take
effect
until
next
year.
Presumably
that
means
Wax
will
still
bring
that
white
nationalist
back
to
class
this
year…
he’s
scheduled
to
address
the
class
in
December.

Alex
Morey
of
the
Foundation
for
Individual
Rights
and
Expression
complained
of
the
sanctions:

Faculty
nationwide
may
now
pay
a
heavy
price
for
Penn’s
willingness
to
undercut
academic
freedom
for
all
to
get
at
this
one
professor.
After
today,
any
university
under
pressure
to
censor
a
controversial
faculty
member
need
only
follow
Penn’s
playbook.

But
academic
freedom
is
designed
to
protect
controversial
faculty
from
being
punished
for
their
speech
or
opinions.
In
an
era
when
political
forces
right
and
left
are
all
too
eager
to
sanitize
campuses
of
voices
and
views
they
dislike,
faculty
nationwide
must
be
able
to
rely
on
the
time-tested
principles
of
academic
freedom.

I’m
not
sure
“academic
freedom”
is
about
professors
collecting
paychecks
to

cite
Wikipedia.

Which
is
both
objectively
funny
and
quite
relevant.
Academic
freedom
is
designed
to
allow
scholars
to
pursue
controversial
research…
and
then
have
it
peer
reviewed
and
published
and,
ideally,
advance
the
field.
An
academic
who
can’t
find
better
support
for
their
theories
than
Wikipedia
would
dismiss
their
hypothesis
and
move
on.
Wax
just
shifted
to
writing
newspaper
op-eds
about
white
superiority
which
is
not,
to
be
clear,

scholarship.

Nothing
about
Wax’s
punishment
has
anything
to
do
with
academic
freedom.
The
school
isn’t
penalizing
her
for
pursuing
controversial
work,
they’re
penalizing
her
for
lying
about
the
school’s
grading
policies,
bashing
Asian
Americans,
and
bringing
a
white
nationalist
to
class.

Of
the
three,
only
the
last
is
marginally
defensible
as
a
matter
of
“academic
freedom,”
and
it’s
only
as
defensible
as
the
idea
that
you
have
to

show
hardcore
porn
in
class
to
understand
obscenity
laws.
You
don’t.
You
can
just
teach
the
material.
Law
students
are
sharp
enough
to
understand

Skokie
without

actually
bringing
Nazis
to
campus.

Rather
than
attacking
her
academic
work
—
or
even
her
free
speech
rights
as
a
private
citizen
—
these
sanctions
reflect
Penn’s
right
as
an
employer
to
not
tolerate
a
hostile
and
discriminatory
environment.

Which
is
why,
despite
FIRE’s
protestations,
faculty
nationwide
will
not
pay
a
heavy
price
over
this.
Defending
free
speech
sometimes
requires
draping
oneself
in
the
slippery
slope,
but
there’s
nothing
about
the
7+
years
of
inaction
that
got
to
this
point
that
will
translate
to
a
random
professor
doing
genuine
research.

Which
isn’t
an
excuse
not
to
remain
vigilant
against
attacks
on
academic
freedom.
But
these
facts
aren’t
the
rallying
cry
they
think
it
is.

Penn
will
sanction
Amy
Wax,
the
law
prof
who
invited
a
white
nationalist
to
speak
to
her
class
[Inquirer]

Earlier:

Penn
Decided
‘Inviting
White
Nationalists
To
Campus’
Only
Earned
Amy
Wax
A
Pay
Cut…
She
Appealed
Anyway

Law
Professors
Say
White
’50s
Culture
Is
Superior,
Other
Racist
Stuff

---

Joe
Patrice is
a
senior
editor
at
Above
the
Law
and
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news.
Joe
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a

Managing
Director
at
RPN
Executive
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Join
me
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Calandra
Almond.
Discover
how
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navigate
law
school
admissions,
balance
career
goals,
and
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Almond’s
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—
don’t
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Highlights

• Personal
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• Considering
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• Admissions
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• Making
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  law
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• The
  importance
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• Diversity
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  and
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• Be
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  and
  what
  you
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  out
  of
  life.

The
Jabot
podcast
is
an
offshoot
of
the
Above
the
Law
brand
focused
on
the
challenges
women,
people
of
color,
LGBTQIA,
and
other
diverse
populations
face
in
the
legal
industry.
Our
name
comes
from
none
other
than
the
Notorious
Ruth
Bader
Ginsburg
and
the
jabot
(decorative
collar)
she
wore
when
delivering
dissents
from
the
bench.
It’s
a
reminder
that
even
when
we
aren’t
winning,
we’re
still
a
powerful
force
to
be
reckoned
with.

Happy
listening!

---

Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of

The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of

Thinking
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*
Rate
cut
has
Biglaw
gearing
up
for
big
deal
cavalcade.
[American
Lawyer]

*
“The
Lawyer
Who
Wants
To
Paint
You.”
Hopefully
not
like
one
of
the
French
girls
from
Titanic.
[The
New
Yorker]

*
Disrupted
sleep
is
a
big
problem
for
attorneys.
The
solution,
of
course,
is
to
never
go
to
sleep
in
the
first
place.
Nighttime
hours
are
just
as
billable
as
daytime!
[ABA
Journal]

*
One-stop-forum-shop
Reed
O’Connor
publicly
complains
about
Judicial
Conference
efforts
to
take
away
his
power
to
write
unhinged
blog
posts
with
the
force
of
federal
law.
[Reuters]

*
Tenth
Circuit
will
hear
challenge
moving
us
one
step
closer
to
putting
a
Wal-Mart
on
top
of
the
Mt
Rushmore
heads.
[Bloomberg
Law
News]

*
Reggie
Bush
sues
over
exploitation
of
his
name,
image,
and
likeness.
[Law360]

*
John
Roberts
taught
at
the
New
England
Law|Boston
over
the
summer.
If
that
seems
like
a
weird
law
school
option
for
a
Chief
Justice
to
do
some
teaching,
bear
in
mind
that
it’s
not
the
actual
campus
but
a
paid
vacation
in
Ireland.
[WIVB]

Justice
continues
to
be
meted
out
for
those
who
participated
in
the
January
6th
attack
on
the
U.S.
Capitol,
and
one
of
the
defendants
sentenced
just
last
week
was
a
recent
law
school
admittee.
For
someone
who
had
aspirations
to
enter
the
legal
profession,
this
isn’t
the
side
of
the
law
you
want
to
be
on.

As
first
reported
by

CBS
42,
would-be
lawyer
James
Grant
had
been
accepted
to
the
University
of
Alabama
School
of
Law
in
the
Fall
of
2021.
In
his

sentencing
memo,
Grant’s
lawyer,
Robert
Feitel,
states
that
his
client
was
accepted
to
the
Top
50
law
school
with
a
full
tuition
scholarship.
CBS
has
additional
details:

Grant,
31,
of
Cary,
North
Carolina,
climbed
into
the
Capitol
through
a
broken
window
and
entered
a
senator’s
office.
After
his
arrest,
he
told
investigators
that
the
FBI
was
“the
biggest
threat
to
Americans”
and
that
prosecuting
Jan.
6
rioters
was
“a
big
witch
hunt.”

One
of
the
first
to
breach
the
interior
of
the
Capitol,
according
to
his
own
sentencing
memo,
Grant
“wandered
through
the
halls,
entered
a
Senator’s
office,
where
he
was
photographed
sitting
calmly.”
Here’s
that
photo,
where
Grant
can
be
seen
giving
the
peace
sign:

As
related
in
his
sentencing
memo,
Grant’s
father
would
later
go
on
to
tell
a
probation
officer
that
his
son
had
“made
an
incredibly
stupid
decision
(regarding
his
conduct
in
the
instant
offense)
which
is
not
emblematic
of
his
character.”

Although
prosecutors
asked
that
Grant
be
sentenced
to
nine
years
behind
bars,
he
was
instead
sentenced
to
three
years
for
his
crimes.
His
attorney
said
it
was
“almost
incomprehensible”
that
such
a
lengthy
sentence
had
been
recommended
for
his
client.

Grant
has
been
behind
bars
since
January
2022
after
he
was
charged
with
driving
while
drunk
with
an
assault
rifle
in
his
car
and
will
get
credit
for
the
time
he
has
already
spent
locked
up.

“I
think
I’ve
been
sufficiently
punished,”
Grant
told
the
judge.

Grant’s
attorney
said
he
should
be
eligible
for
release
almost
immediately
after
getting
credit
for
time
served
and
good
behavior
in
jail.

Per
his
own
sentencing
memo,
“The
opportunity
to
attend
law
school
may
well
be
lost
to
James
forever.”
Will
Alabama
Law
be
willing
give
a
convicted
J6
defendant
a
second
chance?
We
suppose
we’ll
have
to
see.

Man
sentenced
to
prison
for
taking
part
in
Jan.
6
riot
had
been
accepted
to
Alabama
law
school
before
arrest
[CBS
42]

---

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