ADAM LIPTAK has a
piece
in this week's NYT Week in Review that is, we gather, a re-write of a
forthcoming article in The Georgetown Law Journal. (We're not going
to bother with the link because the article isn't posted.) In his
story, “If
the Law Is an Ass, the Law Professor Is a Donkey,“ Liptak writes, “The study…analyzes 11 years of records reflecting federal
campaign contributions by professors at the top 21 law schools as ranked by
U.S. News & World Report.
“Almost a third of these law
professors contribute to campaigns, but of them, the study finds,
81 percent who contributed $200 or more gave wholly or mostly to Democrats; 15
percent gave wholly or mostly to Republicans.The percentages of professors
contributing to Democrats were even more lopsided at some of the most
prestigious schools: 91 percent at Harvard, 92 at Yale, 94 at Stanford. At the
University of Virginia, on the other hand, contributions were about evenly
divided between the parties.”
Liptak
then continues for 600+ words fretting about the contributions to the
Democrats.
Wait a minute. Go back to the phrase
underlined above. Two-thirds of the law professors, apparently,
didn't make any contributions at all. So where's the story
here? Take a look at the graph and let us know.
