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appalachiablue

(41,170 posts) Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:17 PM Oct 2018

Harvard Says Kavanaugh Won't Be Teaching His 2019 Supreme Court Class

Source: Huff Post

By Ashley Feinberg, 12 mins. ago.

Last week, Harvard Law School dean John F. Manning informed students that, though he couldn’t say whether or not Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would still be teaching his January class, The Supreme Court Since 2005, the school was still taking its students’ concerns seriously.

But now the school has informed students that Kavanaugh’s course, which he’s been teaching since 2009, would not be offered this year.

The email, which was sent at 7:55 p.m. Eastern time Monday, reads:
Today, Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course in January Term 2019, so the course will not be offered. Sent on behalf of the Law School’s Curriculum Committee.

Thus far, Harvard Law students haven’t received any other information about the cancellation, though one student noted that there is “tons of speculation right now.”...

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/harvard-says-kavanaugh-won%e2%80%99t-be-teaching-his-2019-supreme-court-class/ar-BBNONkb

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Harvard Says Kavanaugh Won't Be Teaching His 2019 Supreme Court Class (Original Post) appalachiablue Oct 2018 OP

Didn't the students ask to have him removed from teaching that class? BigmanPigman Oct 2018 #1

Yes ineed lots of outrage there. appalachiablue Oct 2018 #3

Behind bars might be a clue, eh? ffr Oct 2018 #2

whine whine, it's the left wing Clinton smear!!! SummerSnow Oct 2018 #4

Hmmm wysi Oct 2018 #5

At this point Woodycall Oct 2018 #7

Good one. JohnnyRingo Oct 2018 #8

Thank You! Woodycall Oct 2018 #11

I used to listen to him on air america. I thought he was sort of middle of the road. efhmc Oct 2018 #12

I'm a retired union brother as well. JohnnyRingo Oct 2018 #15

The calendar's taking a beating now. appalachiablue Oct 2018 #6

Good! TruckFump Oct 2018 #9

You could not pay me enough to take one of his courses. 47of74 Oct 2018 #10

It would be ok if.... reACTIONary Oct 2018 #13

BREAKING: Kavanaugh Will Not Return to Teach at Harvard Law Schoo Gothmog Oct 2018 #14

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)

1. Didn't the students ask to have him removed from teaching that class?

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:33 PM

Oct 2018

appalachiablue

(41,170 posts)

3. Yes ineed lots of outrage there.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:40 PM

Oct 2018

"Harvard Students Protest Any Return of Lecturer Brett Kavanaugh To Cambridge," Boston Globe, Sept. 28, 2018.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142167779

ffr

(22,671 posts)

2. Behind bars might be a clue, eh?

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:35 PM

Oct 2018

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

4. whine whine, it's the left wing Clinton smear!!!

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:41 PM

Oct 2018

wysi

(1,512 posts)

5. Hmmm

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:46 PM

Oct 2018

Next we'll learn that he was rather "touchy" with his female students at the Border Cafe...

Woodycall

(259 posts)

7. At this point

Reply to wysi (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:55 PM

Oct 2018

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that he's so nasty that when he was an alter boy, he molested a priest!

JohnnyRingo

(18,640 posts)

8. Good one.

Reply to Woodycall (Reply #7)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 10:14 PM

Oct 2018

Woodycall

(259 posts)

11. Thank You!

Reply to JohnnyRingo (Reply #8)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 10:55 PM

Oct 2018

Yours is the first positive reply that I've gotten here since I decided to comment (many years visiting). Made the apparently unforgivable mistake of defending Ed Schultz when he died. Was told to eff-off and "go back to Breitbart" Kind of lost faith at that moment since I'm a unionist and to the left of Noam Chomsky. Have been since the 60s.

efhmc

(14,731 posts)

12. I used to listen to him on air america. I thought he was sort of middle of the road.

Reply to Woodycall (Reply #11)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:08 PM

Oct 2018

Not enough of a feminist for me, but did seem to be very proworker. Never listened to him after AA.

JohnnyRingo

(18,640 posts)

15. I'm a retired union brother as well.

Reply to Woodycall (Reply #11)

Tue Oct 2, 2018, 12:06 AM

Oct 2018

Thirty plus years working in a factory gives a different perspective from young urban professionals and millennials alike. I often don't fit within the perimeter of the liberal cookie cutter either, though I'm the genetic offspring of diehard Kennedy union Democrats and would put my cred up against anyone. Never one to need trigger warnings.

You'll need a thick hide if you decide to post here often. Don't take it too personally and stand your ground, just don't get nasty until you have some tenure, and even then....

appalachiablue

(41,170 posts)

6. The calendar's taking a beating now.

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 09:52 PM

Oct 2018

TruckFump

(5,812 posts)

9. Good!

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 10:23 PM

Oct 2018

That POS belongs nowhere near the SCOTUS -- even if it is just teaching a class about it.

47of74

(18,470 posts)

10. You could not pay me enough to take one of his courses.

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 10:44 PM

Oct 2018

Hell you could offer me a full ride scholarship for taking his class and it wouldn't be enough.

reACTIONary

(5,771 posts)

13. It would be ok if....

Reply to 47of74 (Reply #10)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:32 PM

Oct 2018

... you could gauf, chukle, roll your eyes, etc, during class.

Gothmog

(145,496 posts)

14. BREAKING: Kavanaugh Will Not Return to Teach at Harvard Law Schoo

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 11:47 PM

Oct 2018

This man is not fit to be a judge or a law professor https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/2/kavanaugh-is-out/

Embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh will not return to teach at Harvard Law School in January, according to an email administrators sent to Law students Monday evening.
"Today, Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course in January Term 2019, so the course will not be offered," Associate Dean and Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs Catherine Claypoole wrote in the email, which she sent on behalf of the Law School's Curriculum Committee.
Kavanaugh and Harvard Law spokespeople could not immediately be reached for comment.
The news comes after several women have alleged that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted them decades ago. The allegations roiled Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court and spurred students on the Law School's campus to call for Harvard to bar him from teaching pending a "full and fair investigation" of his alleged sexual misconduct.

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