As the dean of a lower-ranked law school that benefited from the Bush administration's hiring practices, Jeffrey Brauch of Regent made no apologies in a recent interview for training students to understand what the law is today, and also to understand how legal rules should be changed to better reflect "eternal principles of justice," from divorce laws to abortion rights.
And here's part 2 of the stategery, plant your own grass. This is something that the religious right has tried doing to education. They get their people in at a local level to push creationism/untelligent design in state or local school boards, so when someone starts asking about church/state separation, their response is it reflects the local community and how could anything be wrong with that? The mission of the new justice department is to create that permanent republican majority Karl Rove so wants, and doesn't care how he gets. These are the same sorts of tactics being employed by the opposition in Iraq, that were employed by the opposition in Vietnam, by the Maoists in China, by the Bolsheviks in Russia and by (let's invoke Godwin's Law right off the bat) the brownshirts in Germany. The idea is, you insert your people into key positions at the low levels and when there is opposition, use them to crush it. It gives the appearance that things are happening at a local level, a grassroots operation, when nothing could be further from the truth. Not only that, but their methodology can be predicted. Let's take a likely event, Hillary gets the Democratic nomination. What can we expect if my analysis is correct? A reopening of Whitewater, the Rose Law questions, travelgate, and anything else Hillary may have done. Ignore that fact that millions were already spent on all of those with absolutely nothing of any legal issue coming from it, the point is to make political hay to win the election, then it can all go away again. Update So to put this in better perspective, here's the USNews assessment of the law school enrollment. 461 full time students with an attrition rate of 9.1% first year and 4.3% year two gets us 401 out of those 461 who will graduate or about 130 per year. That matches up roughly with their website's statement of a class size of 161. ABA accreditation was not granted until 1996. According also to USNews, it is considered a Tier 4 law school, or bottom quartile. Let's really go inside the numbers on this, here is a comment from Slate over the weekend. Goodling is only one of 150 graduates of Regent University currently serving in this administration, as Regent's Web site proclaims proudly, a huge number for a 29-year-old school. Regent estimates that "approximately one out of every six Regent alumni is employed in some form of government work." And that's precisely what its founder desired.
150 graduates in this administration? 1 out of every 20 graduates (and graduate doesn't mean they passed the bar, on average HALF of them FAIL and this also assumes they've been cranking out 130-150 graduates a year for their full 20 year history, which is no way in hell, it's probably much closer to a full 10% of the graduates) is now working for the Bushies. Want to know what the most powerful law school in the country is? Look no farther than Pat Robertson U. Update2 Since someone didn't get the point of this, let's look at Some numbers from some of the good law schools, places that are in the top quartile. Here's Michigan, placing 9% in government service. Here's UCLA, placing 7%. Here's University of Chicago placing 3-4%. Stanford's numbers are less clear with their website only covering the majority position, but government, which is not listed cannot be more than 12% (88% is accounted for leaving 12%, and that 88% does not cover anything other than private practice and clerkships meaning the percentage going directly into government is likely far less than that 12%). Georgetown groups Government and Public Interest together at 12%, which again, places the government number most likely in the 7-9% range (which is understandably higher than most, Georgetown is in DC after all). Great, that's a lot of numbers, but the bottom line is, the top schools don't place as high a percentage of their graduates in ALL OF GOVERNMENT as Regent, and likely a lower percentage than Regent has placed in just the Bush Administration. Keep also in mind that those are places that have been operating for over 100 years while Regent didn't even exist until the 80's. Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school - The Boston Globe | 
