I've gotta say, the next person who criticizes a disfavored political actor from EITHER party as having done/said/opined something "unconstitutional" (ever notice how common that charge is even though few people - and there is an inverse relation between people who've studied constitutional issues and their claim to understanding what the hell it means - have any idea what that term means except that it's magic and meant to send chills down our respective spines!) will receive little sympathy from me for the reaction that they receive. This day has cemented three year's of law study confirming my hypothesis that the constitution was created solely to torment law students and bar applicants. I should write a book about our founding fathers and how they hated lawy students, really. People might believe me and/or give me money for it. Just saying. Y'all have been warned.
Naw, "conlaw" has nothing really to do with that whole piece of paper some dead white dudes signed. It's way more fun and involves totally convoluted legacies of Supreme Court decisions, the WA state constitution and this whole administrative agency EVERYTHING (since agencies control the world). That said, the document receives some vicarious vitriol just having started this whole rigmarole in the first place. If only we had a monarchy! Or a CONSITUION! I want one of those.
And in additional fairness, the field can be fun, if ambiguous, but I do feel that the questions for this portion of the exam are particularly obscure and that nearly identical fact patterns yield drastically different "model answers" in terms of what issues we were apparently supposed to address. I often feel like shaking my essay book and screaming "what do you want from me?" Because I do feel that maybe the conlaw portion of the bar is a little bit passive aggressive.
That said, it's just one more pit stop on the way to pure August oblivion, so can't complain too much. I even managed to see my family and significant other a bit on Saturday. Wooowooo.
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Naw, "conlaw" has nothing really to do with that whole piece of paper some dead white dudes signed. It's way more fun and involves totally convoluted legacies of Supreme Court decisions, the WA state constitution and this whole administrative agency EVERYTHING (since agencies control the world). That said, the document receives some vicarious vitriol just having started this whole rigmarole in the first place. If only we had a monarchy! Or a CONSITUION! I want one of those.
And in additional fairness, the field can be fun, if ambiguous, but I do feel that the questions for this portion of the exam are particularly obscure and that nearly identical fact patterns yield drastically different "model answers" in terms of what issues we were apparently supposed to address. I often feel like shaking my essay book and screaming "what do you want from me?" Because I do feel that maybe the conlaw portion of the bar is a little bit passive aggressive.
That said, it's just one more pit stop on the way to pure August oblivion, so can't complain too much. I even managed to see my family and significant other a bit on Saturday. Wooowooo.
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