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I call on the George Mason University Board of Visitors to rename the Law School the Scalia-Ginsburg School of Law. It honors the bequest but adds the balance in jurisprudence the current name lacks. A statue of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be erected facing the existing Justice Scalia statue signifying that there are competing views of the law and no one view will dominate George Mason University’s academic studies. As a public university Mason has a singular obligation to promote intellectual diversity in thought and actions.
— Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA, 11th District), in a statement urging George Mason to consider changing the law school’s name to honor the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg alongside her dear friend, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom the school is already named. The school has already had to do a rebrand on its new name after inadvertently becoming known as ASS Law for a brief period of time.
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