Judge Urges Law School Donation Halt Until Originalism Taught

Conservative appeals court Judge Amul Thapar called on donors to withhold support from law schools that don’t hire an ideologically diverse faculty and teach originalist theory.

Thapar, a Trump appointee to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Supreme Court short lister, criticized what he said is an absence in originalist teaching at top law schools during remarks Wednesday at the Heritage Foundation.

Originalism is a legal theory favored by conservative judges that calls for the Constitution to be interpreted as its authors would have intended when it was written. It has been cited in major ...