FASORP is a group that takes itself very seriously — which is why it tickles my soul to know that my first story on them was written on April 1st. The organization’s whole identity is centered on not being good enough and making it other people’s problem. They go at length to perform their not-good-enoughness, not just in that they are comprised of faculty and students who weren’t good enough to get their papers published or onto law review, but their law suit history is just a series of failures. They failed when they sued Northwestern on behalf of White teachers who didn’t even apply, their action against Harvard didn’t seem to go anywhere, and most recently they threw in the towel for their fight against University of Michigan. Reuters has coverage:
A conservative legal group has ended a discrimination lawsuit against the University of Michigan’s flagship law journal.
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FASORP voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit on Friday without explanation. The group’s attorney, Jonathan Mitchell, did not immediately respond on Monday to a request for comment and more information, including on whether the case had settled. The law journal, which was due to respond to the suit by Monday, did not respond to a request for comment. The law school had no immediate comment.
As much as I respect UMichigan’s strategy of do nothing…win, I wish they would have taken the hat of discipline approach.
To catch you up on the lore, FASORP’s “activism” ranged from advocating that law review applicants lie on their personal statements to get ahead at both UMichigan and Harvard, threatening schools to save all of their emails for a coming lawsuit or face the consequences, and the general promise to out anyone who was “female, non-white and non-Asian, or homosexual or transgender” as a “DEI hire” with “tainted credentials.” Being a right-winger committed to questions of desert must come with so much whiplash; I’d recommend some Tylenol for the neck pain sustained from switching from “show me Ketanji’s LSAT scores!” to “Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?” but apparently that causes autism now.
Conservative Group Ends Discrimination Lawsuit Against Michigan Law Review [Reuters]
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