WHO'S AFRAID OF PROFESSOR VOLOKH?:

Movin' on Up with the Federalist Society (AMY BACH, October 1, 2001, The Nation)

How does a 1L at Harvard Law School end up singing arm-in-arm with one of the most influential judges on the federal appellate bench? If you are a student at almost any law school, not just one of the top ones, and you have remotely conservative interests, you too can join a student chapter of the Federalist Society and gain automatic admission to the highest echelons of right-wing politics and legal advocacy. Take Chris Ward, 31, a former Latin teacher who graduated from Harvard Law School this spring. As a first year student, he attended the society's annual national student symposium, held that year in Chicago. Afterward he repaired to a hotel bar where he and his friends joined in singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" to Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor.

This hilariously paranoid article shows why even qualified conservatives get raked over the coals in their confirmation hearings. Liberals view conservatives in much the way that conservatives once (rightly) viewed Communists, Protestants once (mostly wrongly) viewed the Jesuits, and Europeans (despicably) view Jews, as members of a dangerous and secretive conspiracy determined to overthrow the state. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 6, 2002 10:49 AM