Law professors at Harvard, Chicago, the University of Michigan and Stanford have given 100 percent of their 2008 election contributions to Democratic candidates. Furthermore, an overview of 17 top law schools shows faculty members have given 95 percent of their political contributions — more than $1 million — to Sen. Barack Obama.
Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for the Liberty Legal Institute, said it's no coincidence that law schools are producing a growing number of liberal, activist judges.
“(Elite schools) definitely have an agenda," he told Family News in Focus. "It’s a Left-wing agenda — versus having judges who would be on the court and respect the rule of law (and) would restrain themselves.”
Curt Levey, executive director for the Committee for Justice, said Left-leaning teachers are passing down activist ideas to future judges.
"Judges are influenced by what the elite intellectual law schools think, and they also care very much how they are reviewed," he said. "It's those law professors who write top law review articles and are going to either praise or disparage the work of the judges all the way up the U.S. Supreme Court."
Only one school — Northwestern — saw a majority of its law professor donations go to Sen. John McCain.
— Family News in Focus
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