VRA arguments; the end of the affair

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1. Speak Truth says:

   February 27, 2013 at 5:26 pm

   It wasn’t that Congress thought that they needed legislation to correct a wrong. The real problem, stated or not, is the VRA treated the states differently.

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   • joe from Lowell says:

     February 27, 2013 at 7:10 pm

     The states themselves are different. Of course they’re treated differently.

     Shall I start complaining that it’s unfair for New Mexico to get more Bureau of Indian Affairs money than Massachusetts?

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     • rea says:

       February 27, 2013 at 7:23 pm

       Not to mention, what in the 15th Amendment says Congress, in execising its expressly granted power to prevent discrimination in voting rights, can’t treat states differently?

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       • efgoldman says:

         February 27, 2013 at 7:54 pm

         I think Nino’s view is that the 15th amendment is null and void. As is any other amendment he doesn’t care for.

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   • Cody says:

     February 28, 2013 at 9:05 am

     I’m not sure why seceding from the US in order to keep slaves would get a State special treatment.

     It’s not like they did anything wrong.

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2. Aidan says:

   February 27, 2013 at 5:35 pm

   That’s quite the comment section.

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3. joe from Lowell says:

   February 27, 2013 at 7:11 pm

   I gotta tell you, Paul, I’ve never seen one person succeed at putting an issue into the public conversation the way you have with your writing about law schools.

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   • Eli Rabett says:

     February 28, 2013 at 10:13 am

     Agreed, but as with NIH grants, medical schools and PhDs, the real problem is that there are too many faculty as well there are too many medical school faculty.

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4. brianleitersrottingteeth says:

   February 28, 2013 at 8:45 pm

   Not to take anything away from Paul, but the situation with law schools was crying out for somebody like him. He grabbed the opportunity, but I think any law professor could have. Any law professor who began to write about the law school scam could expect hundreds of admiring comments for each blog post, and could expect to command an army to bust down the doors at any other blog with a comment section to attack whatever defense of the status quo was being offered. The situation had just become that bad. That’s why I think the law professors who envy the publicity Paul made for himself are so pathetic. It could have been theirs.

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