After the Stillborn Impeachment Finally Is Dismissed, Trump Should Employ Greater Prudence During the Next Five Years
No reason to give the haters anything to play with.
by Dov Fischer
January 25, 2020, 12:02 AM
As a very smart young rabbi, a graduate of Columbia University and Yeshiva University, I was quite confident of two things: (i) the inherent goodness of all people, and (ii) my own intelligence. As I subsequently learned in due time, that is the most lethal mix imaginable, a sure-fire path to self-destruction. Because of that mix, I married the wrong person, allowed myself to be induced to make the only two disastrous decisions that changed, altered, and ruined important aspects of my life’s journey, and ended up being cheated out of my first 20 years’ life’s savings.
And then in 1990, after 10 successful years in the rabbinate, I went to a great law school. The law school was 98 percent top-heavy with radical Leftist law professors, but I long-by-then knew when Leftists were undertaking to reeducate and indoctrinate me. So I ate up and consumed every morsel of law I could glean, while discarding the chaff of Leftist indoctrination. On my final exams, I fed back to my professors the Leftist pablum they were looking for, along with the substantive law they had taught me, and I did so well that I emerged as a top graduate, a finalist to deliver the class graduation speech (rejected only because the proposed speech that I submitted espoused conservative values), and one of two finalists for editor-in-chief of their law review. I ultimately was named Chief Articles Editor of Law Review because the outgoing law review editorial board, in debating the merits of the two finalists, explicitly stated during their secret deliberations that they could not imagine how an Orthodox Jew conceivably could handle a full law school courseload plus all the duties of being editor-in-chief of the law review if he would not work on the Friday nights and Saturday nights of his Sabbath. Moreover, they said, Dov was father to three young children at home, so he just would not have time. So the tolerant liberals voted not to give the Orthodox Jew, father of three, that role but instead the N0. 2 role, chief articles editor. I loved that. And it was a role that led to the single best thing that ever had happened to me up to that time, an opportunity to clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the finest person I ever have known, Chief Judge Danny J. Boggs. (And I am indebted to the outraged law review board members who leaked to me how I had been denied solely because I am an Orthodox Jew and a father.)
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