Majority Or Minority
And it's really interesting. I straddled two different years of students. I mean, the kids, they're young enough to be my kids.
But I see just between the two years, the entering class is really different. The first entering class that I came in in the middle of, I would say they were pretty typical in terms of how they look at things and all of that. And then the class that entered in 2025 into law school, these are the kids that are, you know, they really got hit hardest from the whole COVID madness.
They had their lives completely disrupted and in all possible ways. And it's an entirely different mentality. I mean, I don't even know how to really describe it.
There is an energy to them, and there is, you know, some level of realism to them. And the other thing that's happened over just the year and a half I've been in law school here is the Federalist Society went from being something that hid in the dark, deep recesses, in the corners, and you were ashamed of doing it, to now it's the largest student group on the entire campus. Over 250 members just in the Federalist Society in the law school.
It's unreal, this shift towards, you know, really thinking about things in terms of why are we doing it. And I wouldn't call it cynicism, what these kids have. I mean, they're not dark about it, but there's a realism to them.
And to go back on the whole, looking at what the Supreme Court justices are writing in terms of constitutional law and, you know, how are you feeling today, I think is perfectly accurate. And as I said before, this last semester, I had my first semester of constitutional law, and that class was eye-opening in terms of that is exactly what it is. And it has absolutely changed over time.
In that class, you know, you have to sit there and read case after case after case after case over time so that you understand how constitutional law has evolved over time and the arguments and things like that. And the thing is, the older cases that I would read, even when I disagreed with whatever the majority or minority, there was logic to it. There was a certain respect to it.