Scalia Law grads most likely to be picked as federal judges by Trump
The George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School is now the go-to school for federal judges in President Donald Trump’s second term, topping even Harvard Law School and Yale Law School (Photo from Shutterstock)
The George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School is now the go-to school for federal judges in President Donald Trump’s second term, topping even Harvard Law School and Yale Law School, according to Bloomberg Law.
Three graduates of the Arlington, Virginia, law school—known for its conservative leanings and named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia—were confirmed to federal district court judgeships.
If the two additional alumni nominated this month are confirmed, Antonin Scalia Law School alumni would outnumber Trump’s second-term judicial appointees from Harvard Law School and Yale Law School combined, according to the news group’s analysis of federal judiciary data on judicial appointments.
According to the story, of the 33 people confirmed to the bench in Trump’s second term, more than half earned their law degrees at public universities—including the Antonin Scalia Law School—while five attended Ivy League law schools—including three from Yale, one from Harvard and one from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Traditionally, many schools that have launched jurists are pretty left-leaning, Maya Sen, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who writes about federal judges, told Bloomberg Law.
In a statement, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said, “The president seeks to appoint judges who will faithfully apply the law in the mold of Justices Thomas and Alito and the late Justice Scalia,” according to the story.
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