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Why Is Tiffany Trump Going To Law School?

Her future classmates really want to know the answer to this question.

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Tiffany Trump (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Tiffany Trump (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Despite the fact that a great deal of digital ink has been spilled on Tiffany Trump’s law school journey — from her LSAT preparation to the elite law schools she visited (like Harvard, Columbia, and NYU) to the law school she chose to call home for the next three years (Georgetown) — little seems to be known about why the president’s daughter aspired to go to law school in the first place.

Why is Tiffany Trump going to law school?

One of her future colleagues in the incoming class of 2020 wants to know the answer (as we’re sure all members of the class of 2020 do), so she took to the pages of Teen Vogue to address the Second Daughter.

Maria Kari, a 28-year-old Pakistani-Canadian lawyer, will be completing an LL.M. program at the Georgetown University Law Center, and she’ll be required to take many first-year classes (where she’ll potentially be seated next to Trump). Kari is frightened to her core by the “hatred and intolerance that marks our times,” and lists some of the reasons why in a letter to her future classmate:

I am terrified by the new president’s disdain for legal standards and factual analysis. I am terrified by the current administration’s decision to defund and discredit laws and institutions that were put into place by this country’s founding fathers to promote dignity, tolerance, and equality for all. I am terrified by the constant dialogue of hate, fear-mongering, and psychological gaslighting that is infecting the body of the people.

Perhaps Tiffany Trump cares more about the rule of law than her father. Perhaps Tiffany Trump is more respectful of the opinions of “so-called” judges than her father. Perhaps Tiffany Trump wants to learn the ins and outs of social media law so she can educate her father. No one can say for sure, because we simply don’t know. That’s why Kari chose to demand an answer from her classmate:

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[W]hat brings you to Georgetown this fall?

Are you also made anxious by the ripple effect created by the current administration’s actions that is causing tremors of chaos around the world? Are you also starting to realize that local attitudes and conflicts are increasingly becoming more complex and interlinked around the world? Are you also fed up of and ready to challenge the vicious cycle of dispossession and disenfranchisement that this country’s 99.5% are stuck in? Are you also perplexed by the disregard shown to non-criminal undocumented persons who contribute so greatly to this great nation? Are you also confused why old white men get to legislate our reproductive rights? Most importantly, are you also alarmed by the growing disconnect and lack of compassionate advocates in the White House?

The world wants to know, Tiffany. Why are you going to law school?

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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