Black scholar plagiarized by Harvard’s Gay sends legal demand letter: ‘unlawful copying’

Jennifer Kabbany - Fix Editor •January 5, 2024

(Dr. Swain is on Bannon’s war room a lot, she had an interview through this last week, Gay plagiarized a lot of her writing, theories and perverted her solutions.)

Carol Swain, one of the most prominent conservative black scholars in the nation whose ideas appear to have been lifted and riffed on by Harvard University’s Claudine Gay without credit, has sent a letter to the institution’s leaders demanding answers and “remedies.” The Jan. 3 letter is addressed to Harvard Corporation fellows, who oversee the school, and states Swain’s 1993 book “Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress” was the “subject of plagiarism, use without citation, and unlawful copying” by Gay.

Gay resigned as president of Harvard University on Tuesday amid nearly 50 accusations of plagiarism as well as criticisms over her apathy toward extreme campus antisemitism. She will remain a professor at the Ivy League institution, earning $900,000 annually.The legal letter calls Swain’s book “a seminal work on Black representation in Congress” and notes it has been cited in two U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

“Accordingly, Dr. Swain is entitled to certain rights and remedies arising from the prohibited use of its content,” stated the letter, penned by her attorneys.

“Through its acts, omissions, and public statements surrounding the use of Dr. Swain’s work, the Harvard Corporation is now invested in this matter and its subsequent outcome.” Swain, a former Vanderbilt University law and political science professor, told The College Fix she has been incredibly frustrated to learn of the plagiarism, and called Gay a “serial plagiarizer.”

“Part of my complaint with her is not just the two places in which she lifted language,” Swain said in a Wednesday afternoon telephone interview.“It has to do with her trying to refute what I was saying, but not really citing the work and engaging the work in the way that scholars do.”

Gay, in an op-ed in The New York Times on Wednesday, denied all plagiarism allegations. “My critics found instances in my academic writings where some material duplicated other scholars’ language, without proper attribution,” she wrote, adding she requested a few corrections for some of the claims. “I have never misrepresented my research findings, nor have I ever claimed credit for the research of others,” Gay wrote. “Moreover, the citation errors should not obscure a fundamental truth: I proudly stand by my work and its impact on the field.”

Swain told The Fix that not only did Gay lift her ideas without credit — Gay worked to refute Swain’s arguments without proper credit. “There is not a problem with you challenging someone else’s work or affirming it or expanding it — but you need to engage the work and cite it,” Swain said. In a Dec. 17 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Swain argued Gay’s “scholarship on black congressional representation, electoral districting and descriptive representation builds on terrain where I plowed the ground.”

“When scholars aren’t cited adequately or their work is ignored, it harms them because academic stature is determined by how often other researchers cite your work,” Swain’s op-ed stated. “Ms. Gay had no problem riding on the coattails of people whose work she used without proper attribution.Many of those whose work she pilfered aren’t as incensed as I am. They are elites who have benefited from a system that protects its own.”

While Swain is now an outspoken Christian conservative, at the time she wrote “Black Faces, Black Interests” in the mid-1990s she said she was a Democrat just trying to produce good scholarship. She told The Fix she worked incredibly hard to get where she is today and will not allow the plagiarism to go unchallenged because it could set a horrible new standard.

“I’ve had people tell me because I am black and she is black I should let it go,” Swain said. “If Harvard gets away with redefining plagiarism and establishing a lower standard for black scholars — or any scholar — that is not good for education in America.” “It will not only impact every college and university but K-12 education. It takes us down a further path that most of us are trying to figure out a way to get out of,” she said.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-scholar-plagiarized-by-harvards-gay-sends-legal-demand-letter-unlawful-copying/

>>20215110

The doctor had a rough life, and stealing her seminal work by Gay is the ultimate elite move, plus she's a Christian (only much later in life), and believes the schools allow these things which will destroy the educational effect of the universities.

Carol Miller Swain(born March 7, 1954) is an American political scientist and legal scholar who is a retired professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University. She is a frequent television analyst and has authored and edited several books. Her interests include race relations, immigration, representation, evangelical politics, and the United States Constitution.

Early life and education

Carol Miller Swain was born on March 7, 1954, in Bedford, Virginia,the second of twelve children.[1][2] Her father dropped out of school in the third grade and her mother dropped out in high school.[3] Her stepfather used to physically abuse her mother, Dorothy Henderson, who is disabled due to polio.[4]Swain grew up in poverty, living in a shack without running water, and sharing two beds with her eleven siblings.[3] She did not finish high school, dropping out in ninth grade.[4] She moved to Roanoke with her family in the 1960s and appealed to a judge to be transferred to a foster home, which was denied. Swain instead lived with her grandmother in a trailer park.[3]

After she divorced in 1975, Swain earned a GED and worked as a cashier at McDonald's, a door-to-door salesperson, and an assistant in a retirement facility.[3] She later earned an associate degree from Virginia Western Community College.[2]She went on to earn a B.A., magna cum laude, in criminal justice from Roanoke College and a master's degree in political science from Virginia Tech. While an undergraduate at Roanoke College, she organized a scholarship fund for black students that by 2002 had an endowment of $350,000.[3]

She finished a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989.[2] In 2000, she earned a Master of Legal Studies from Yale Law School.[5]

Career

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_M._Swain

Judges seem skeptical of Trump's immunity claims, he says 'can’t have a president without immunity'

One Biden-appointed judge said that the argument would allow a president to resign rather than be impeached.

Updated: January 9, 2024 2:05pm

The three-judge panel reportedly appeared skeptical on Tuesday as they listened to former President Donald Trump's arguments about how presidential immunity protects him from being criminally prosecuted on charges connected to the 2020 election.

"You can’t have a president without immunity," Trump told reporters at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel after the hearing, per CNN. "As a president, you have to be able to do your job.”

Trump's attorneys asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to completely toss the case as they contended that former presidents can only be prosecuted if they are impeached and convicted by Congress, The Hill reported.

However, the judges appeared to be likely to reject the immunity arguments. They stated that Congress may not always decide to impeach a president and if impeachment were required, it could stop prosecutors from acting on new evidence at a later date.

"I think it is paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws," Judge Karen Henderson, a George H.W. Bush appointee, said in court. (She should apply that H. W. Bush’s illegal South American and drug and oils wars in the ME, pretty ironic comment.)

Judge Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee, said that the argument would allow a president to resign rather than be impeached.

The federal appeals court is hearing the case after the Supreme Court rejected special counsel Jack Smith's request for the high court to hear the case without first going to an appeals court.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/judges-appear-skeptical-trumps-immunity-arguments

(I’m pretty they won’t say he has immunity for two reasons, 1. They are afraid of the leftists backlash in DC, and they won’t be invited to the elite parties and 2. They want to drag it out and make it go to the Supreme Court for more drama and to drain him financially dry. I wonder if the SC Justices are ever chagrined about these idiot Judges and their illegal rulings?)

House Freedom Caucus calls Speaker Johnson's proposed spending deal with Schumer 'total failure'

With a slim Republican majority, the 45-member Freedom Caucus holds a significant amount of sway in the 435-member House.

Updated: January 8, 2024 11:51am

The conservative House Freedom Caucus slammed House Speaker Mike Johnson's proposed top-line spending deal with Senate Democrats as a "total failure," arguing thepotential agreement costs about $68 billion more than the Louisiana Republican said it would.

Johnson told members of Congress on Sunday that he reached a $1.590 trillion spending deal with the Senate and White House, but the Freedom Caucus slammed the proposal later that evening in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

"It’s even worse than we thought," the caucus wrote."Don’t believe the spin. Once you break through typical Washington math, thetrue total programmatic spending level is $1.658 trillion — not $1.59 trillion. This is total failure."

At the end of last month, the Freedom Caucus released a statement titled, "House GOP’s New Year Resolution Must Be Cutting Spending," which stated that the U.S. is "on the path to fiscal ruin" but that Congress has "done little to force a course correction from this calamity."

With a slim Republican majority, the 45-member Freedom Caucus holds a significant amount of sway in the 435-member House, and most recently played an integral role in deciding the House speaker.

Now, the House needs to pass a deal before government funding completely expires on Feb. 2.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-freedom-caucus-slams-speaker-johnsons-proposed-spending-deal-total

(Maybe the Godly Man Johnson, doesn't know what numbers are, he sure isn't built for a fight with the left, he seems like he wants to make friends, instead fight the leftists from destroying America.)

>>20215215

Loomer has some pretty interesting and effective tactics, the one thing you can say about her, she's not afraid of much, and she likes yelling