A new report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation says left-leaning law schools are influencing elections through the way they teach election law.
The group’s report, 'Dangerous Imbalance: Why Law Schools Graduate an Army of Activist Election Lawyers,' says left-leaning and liberal election law professors outnumber right-of-center and conservative professors 76 to 12. It also says 81 of the 196 accredited law schools in the United States offer no election law courses, and 12 states have no law school offering any election law course.
J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, said in a public statement that 'what happens in law schools affects real elections.' He said professors are teaching how to 'destroy election safeguards.' Adams also said 'almost all election law professors are Democrats or on the left.'
The report says the imbalance shows up in election litigation because it helps create a larger pool of left-leaning election lawyers. It says future election lawyers are trained in courses taught by far-left law school faculty.
The report also says election law professors often influence public opinion through media appearances and outside litigation work. It looked at 15 universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, the University of Kentucky, the University of Illinois, and the University of Michigan.
Between the lines: this is a fight over who trains the lawyers that shape election rules. The left has built a deeper bench, according to the watchdog. That matters because election law is where voting rules meet the courtroom.
The bottom line: if the report is right, the real battle is not just at the ballot box. It is in the classroom, the nonprofit world, and the legal pipeline that feeds both.