Georgetown University Law Center

I'm sitting with Lindsay Hamilton trying to understand more about who Austin is and what drove him to go to Syria.

I remember there was a, a moment when he was at Georgetown Law and there was a speaker that he disagreed with, and so he stood with his back to the speaker in the room.

Sort of an idealism then.

Oh, absolutely.

But It's not a third rail for my podcast, What Could Go Right, of which I am the host, which is part of the Progress Network.

And we are going to talk today with Professor Dorothy Brown of Georgetown Law.

She began her career as a tax professor and has become, over time, one of the main proponents of and leading voices for reparations.

And she has charted out How to do it, why to do it, when to do it, and who should be doing it.

So when it comes to talking with antitrust luminaries, I really think we've outdone ourselves with our guest for this current episode, Steve Salop.

Professor of Economics and Law Emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center.

His reputation really precedes him for anybody who knows antitrust.

But needless to say, I think Steve really is one of the top antitrust thinkers of his generation.

There have been over a dozen complaints brought against current Department of Justice lawyers, and there's just been diversity of responses by the bar because these lawyers are licensed in different jurisdictions that have authority to impose discipline.

D.C. is currently proceeding against Ed Martin, who was a former interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and who prominently threatened the Georgetown Law School if it didn't end its DEI program.

And he's under disciplinary investigation now by the D.C. Bar for that action.

Other bars haven't acted on complaints.

Got it.

To round things out, Martin threatened Georgetown Law School for being full of DEI, telling the school that his office wouldn't hire any clerks from the school.

In prior comments, he also not so vaguely said the school should lose its federal grants.

Martin followed these stellar performances by using his office to investigate alleged voter fraud, spinning up a division called Special Unit Election Accountability.

Apparently, out sick on that day of law school as well.

All of this behavior has, unsurprisingly, resulted in a cavalcade of bar complaints, which, true to form, Martin has handled not only badly, but extremely weirdly.

His attack on Georgetown Law School led the D.C. Bar to open disciplinary proceedings against him after he comically mishandled the initial Bar complaint against him.

That Bar complaint was filed when Martin was still interim U.S. attorney for D.C., and he seemed to think that gave him some sort of juice with the D.C. Bar and the judicial bench.