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I just signed up to be a mentor at my law school, and did something that is atypical for me: Display a preference for female law students. It even surprises me when I look at that sentence, since my entire career as a columnist has been dedicated to the proposition that gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and all of the other epidermal things that form our identity are less important than the intangibles of brain, values, heart and capacity for endurance. Those elements transcend melanin, sexual organs, sexual preference and in many cases the way we pray (or don’t).
But the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a compelling and transformational impact on me. So did the identity of her replacement, Amy Coney Barrett.
As news of Ginsburg’s passing became widespread on social media last week, I noticed a theme emerging: We must mourn this great advocate for women by making sure we don’t let a conservative pick her successor. To be more explicit, they warned against nominating someone like Coney Barrett. And that’s when I realized I needed to show the younger female members of my profession that you could be a conservative, particularly a social conservative, and still be a forceful “advocate for women.” Hence, the mentoring.
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Beware of ambitious prosecutors with a righteous cause. People who get in their way end up as road kill on the justice highway.
We saw it 10 years ago, when three young lacrosse players were railroaded through a hellish year of indictments, threats, lies and character assassination by Mike Nifong, the now-disbarred prosecutor who tried to win re-election by pacifying a black stripper and her sympathizers. The people who hated “privileged” white boys had their champion in Nifong, and he did everything in his power to make them happy. He believed the blatant lies of a woman who fabricated a rape story. He violated the due process rights of young men who were adjudicated “actually innocent” by the attorney general of North Carolina. He milked the myth of systemic sexual abuse on college campuses to gain sympathy for a lie. And those privileged white boys paid a high price.
Then we saw what happens when a woman stands up in front of raging mobs and promises “justice” for a dead man, but doesn’t have the competence to match her passion. Marilyn Mosby, state’s attorney for Maryland, made an iconic figure standing at the microphone last May when she said, “To the people of Baltimore and the demonstrators across America. I heard
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