I woke up to the news of DOJ raiding Jon Bolton’s house and as I skimmed through the article, saw the rich quote from man with perpetual deer in headlights face Kash Patel say “NO ONE is above the law.” Pssshhhh it’s all so farcical.
But anyway any current U.S. law students or professors out there? What is being taught currently given the obvious flouting of the laws by our highest arms of government? What’s con law like? Yeesh! Genuinely curious. Now excuse me while I melt away down our slide into fascism. Sigh.
I live a liberal city, and was in public school just a few years ago. They mostly do teach the true ugly history of slavery and genocide. For civics, they do teach about constitution and impeachments, in fact, we as a class analyzed many of the boring parts of the constitution anx declaration of independence, and I had to memorize and write out the preamble of the constitution on a test. There aren’t much that’s censored.
And they also taught about different political systems, and oh boy, once they mentioned socialism and commmunism, they immediately alluded to the soviet union. Which isn’t that surprising since, you know, status-quo liberals.
TLDR: Censorship, not really. Biased teachers, yes, absolutely. Capitalism is always good, anything socialist or communist is soviet union, russia, or china (which is a gross misrepresentation on the ideology)
P.S. One teacher did briefly mentioned Germany and that nazi flags are illegal in modern day Germany and there was a class discussion about it, it was sort of divided, the teacher kinda implied they supported banning nazi flags, but of course, the US Constitution wouldn’t allow that to happen. So the concept of free speech absolutism is kinda being debated, athough I think a lot of my peers at the time supported free speech absolutism, at least when it comes to laws.
Is there any specific questions you would like to ask about my liberal city public school? (I’m not gonna name the city, just the fact that its not in a red state)
they do teach all that in the early 2000s, but they gloss over it pretty quickly.
What did they teach about the Trump stuff? A lot of things are happening, or not happening but widely believed to be happening, that aren’t supposed to. Did they discuss the possibility that traditional system of government might not survive?
Was already out of school during the second term. During the first term, there weren’t much of the current blatant constitutional violations. But they did talk about the impeachments, the fact that only 3 presidents have been impeached, the process of impeachements, etc… (most of school was Before Jan 6)
But during the final year of high school, it was after Jan 6, and they did talk about January 6 and the fact that trump’s speech to supporters right before the Jan 6 Capitol Attack was the cause of the Riot, that was the term one of the teachers used, it was either referred to as “Attack on the capitol” or “Riot”, they did mention that “Some have called it a ‘Insurrection’ or ‘Coup’”, but the teachers (at least the teacher I had) never used the term themselves, but only mentioned those terms in reference to the other people using those terms (see: Use–mention distinction), its just “Riot” being the main term. And they did call out the fact that trump’s accusations on voter fraud is false.
TLDR: They called out trump’s lies, and they said it was trump’s actions that caused Jan 6, but never used terms like “treason” or “coup” when they refer to trump’s actions.