It is academic based. I'm in it. Requires something like top 10% cumulative GPA (maybe it's top 7%, can't remember) in your senior year and some substantive course-based requirements as well. I joined just because it had a reputation and I was applying to law schools. Thought it would be a nice resume line. Never attended any functions. I think I got a newsletter or something the first couple years but that's it. Most likely this is the case for the vast majority of inductees.
This is bizarre. He has virtually zero litigation experience (I took a deposition and argued motions, on my own, a year out of law school). This guy is not even a marginal candidate for the federal bench, the fact that he's even there is a complete waste of time. Either Trump nominated him for a reason or he slipped under the radar. I don't get it.
BTW that graphic is good. Especially with the Lisa Bloom/Gloria All Red stuff now breaking in msm it would maybe be good to add this to the meme library/list. RR's in there being grilled about conflicts while he's got a major fucking conflict himself. All these people need to be disbarred. Makes me fucking sick.
I remember this from 4 back when the Manafort Papadopoulos news broke. Makes sense that guy's name is fake and he's an asset, but he basically failed, right (that is, he never obtained the authority to go do shady shit in Russia - as a rep of the Trump campaign - to cobble together more bs for the frame-up)?
Concur.