Pleading Amnesty For  College Opinionating

The case is made for a statute of limitations on whatever indiscretions, blasphemies or other “intemperate musings” judicial nominees might have memorialized in their wayward college days. Quoting his own Wall Street Journal oped, the founding and current editor of the “Above the Law” blog says that college “is traditionally a time of experimentation and exploration. We adopt and discard ideas and try out different identities, sometimes in rapid succession. These identifies often bear little resemblance to our mature selves— Hillary Clinton was once a ‘Goldwater girl,’ while Clarence Thomas was a Black Panther sympathizer …”