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The Federalist Society Has Some Problems With Tinder

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Last week was the ABA Techshow, which put me in Chicago and unable to curate our weekly meme roundup from the good folks at Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. So we’ve got two weeks of content to regale the readers with this week. Fun fact: this feature has generated, to date, the second most traffic on the website of this young year, so we’re glad you’ve been enjoying the hard work these folks put into their memes as much as we do. As usual, names aren’t provided to protect the innocent.

And, as a bonus, we get to hear about Fed Soc’s curious programming choices.

The USNWR rankings were leaked this week to most everyone’s delight (except for this school) and we once again got to engage in the best bloodsport — deciding who will benefit from the wholly arbitrary “T14” quality marker.

The “T14” accurately describes that the same 14 schools always rank in the top 15 (including that one-year Georgetown blip) but as a quality marker this is misleading. The gap between school 12 and school 16 is negligible but for our reliance on the “T14” shortcut. But, it makes for fun memes and really that’s why we’re here.

This should be the first slide in every Property lecture ever.

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One of the most notably misleading law school moves is titling a course “Evidence.” To give students the best shot at understanding what they’re learning and, importantly, being tested upon at the end of the semester, it really should be renamed, “Hearsay And A Couple Other Things.”

Getting through the stress of being a young lawyer can be hard, and while maintaining a responsible relationship with alcohol is our preferred method, there are those who take another path. But with apologies to our columnists with a mindfulness focus, this is how that can feel sometimes:

This one is captioned brilliantly as “A Portrait of the Gunner as a Young Man” and is quite simply a work of art.

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By now, everyone should have their first semester grades and hopefully you don’t need to take the advice of Thanos here.

That said, maybe you don’t need to outline anymore:

No weekly recap would be complete without checking in on our FedSoc colleagues. Let’s see what they’re up to. This is captioned: “To anyone who thinks Fedsoc doesn’t care about injustice in our society…”

“Punish those individuals.” Does caveat emptor really only apply to the libs these days? This is how dating works! Everyone lies about themselves and after a few dates you decide if you’re willing to deal with the terminally damaged person who chose you in a literal flash of a second while waiting for their GrubHub order last week or not. Actually, come to think of it, this session is probably more defensive. These kids just want to be assured they won’t face any backlash when they don’t include all their MAGA hat fashion shots and blackface selfies in their profile. So, in that case, good for you I guess.

Captain Marvel just came out, so let’s just lean into the 90s nostalgia today:

The symbolism here is that no matter how bad things seem right now, with the help of your friends and some good lawyers, you’ll come out of this perfectly fine.

Then years later something completely unrelated will ruin your life.

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