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This Brett Kavanaugh Valentine’s Day Card Is So Wrong But So Funny
Posted on Friday February 15, 2019

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It’s time once again to offer our weekly selection of terrific offerings from the genius law students over at Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. As always, I’m not naming the individual creators so they never have to answer an on-campus interviewer asking “why does your name show up in Above the Law?” but if anyone honestly wants to take the credit, let me know and I’ll put your name on here.

So this week brought us Valentine’s Day, and with it a deeply wrong but oh-so funny take on America’s worst justice:

Oh. My.

Well, let’s pivot to today’s biggest story — the declaration of emergency time in America. Trump declared a national emergency to secure funding for his wall today and immediately undermined his own case by saying that he “didn’t need to” declare an emergency meaning, I guess, it wasn’t really an emergency? Good luck with that one.

“When you’re real confident you have the right answer during your Con Law cold call…”

Let’s take on something lighter like the crushing weight of the academic experience with, “Law School in a nutshell”:

Speaking of law school, students at Loyola in New Orleans may be having a rough go of it:

Meanwhile, we’ve all been here:

The sorrowful end of the Mars Rover provided some inspiration:

“How’s law school?”

For the enterprising journal folks who have to read page after page of intellectual masturbation shot all over the page by some associate professor from Nobody Cares State trying desperately to earn tenure:

This one is just captioned “When you go to your first Fed Soc event” and it was my personal favorite of the week.

Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

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