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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUgh......just saw Ken Starr on faux noise when flying around the dial......
When did he become an authority on the federal bench??? Mr. know it all....
marble falls
(57,077 posts)Starr attended the Churches of Christaffiliated Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, where he was an honor student, a member of the Young Democrats[10] and a vocal supporter of Vietnam protesters.[15] He later transferred to George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, in 1968. While there, he became a member of Delta Phi Epsilon.[16]
Starr was not drafted for military service during the Vietnam War, as he was classified 4‑F, because he has psoriasis.[17] He worked in the Southwestern Advantage entrepreneurial program and later attended Brown University, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1969, and then Duke University School of Law, earning a J.D. in 1973.[18]
Legal career
After his graduation from Duke, Starr worked as a law clerk for U.S. circuit judge David W. Dyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (19731974).[14] Later, he clerked for Chief Justice Warren Burger of the Supreme Court of the United States (197577).[14]
He joined the Washington, D.C., office of the Los Angelesbased law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 1977.[19] He was appointed counselor to U.S. attorney general William French Smith in 1981.[14]
On September 13, 1983, he was nominated by Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated by George MacKinnon. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 20, 1983, and received the commission on September 20, 1983. His service terminated on May 26, 1989, due to resignation.[20]
Starr was the United States solicitor general, from 1989 to 1993, under George H. W. Bush.[20]
murielm99
(30,733 posts)Seriously?
marble falls
(57,077 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)President of Baylor University from which he was summarily dismissed for systemically ignoring sexual violence on campus.
What a neat guy!
marble falls
(57,077 posts)To be precise: he was fired as President but kept as Chancellor and tenured Professor. He resigned those positions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr
His inauguration was held on September 17, 2010, where Stephen L. Carter was the keynote speaker.[63] Within his first two weeks in office, Starr was "leading the charge" to keep the university in the Big 12 Conference for athletics.[64] Starr was additionally named chancellor of Baylor in November 2013, a post that had been vacant since 2005. He became the first person to hold the positions of president and chancellor at Baylor at the same time.[65]
In September 2015, Baylor's Board of Regents initiated an external review of the university's response to reports of sexual violence to be conducted by the Pepper Hamilton law firm. Baylor had been accused of failing to respond to reports of rape and sexual assault filed by at least six female students from 2009 to 2016. Former football player Tevin Elliot was convicted of rape. Elliot is currently serving a 20-year sentence after his conviction in January 2014.[66] Another student, Sam Ukwuachu, was convicted but has since had that conviction overturned and was retried, only to see it reinstated by the Texas Court of Appeals in 2018.[67] Pepper Hamilton reported their findings to the regents on May 13,[68] and on May 26, the regents announced Starr's removal as university president, effective May 31.[69]
The May 26, 2016, announcement of personnel changes by the Board of Regents said Starr was to have continued as Chancellor and also as a faculty member at Baylor Law School. Starr, however, announced his resignation as Chancellor on June 1, effective immediately. He told an interviewer that he took that action "as a matter of conscience." He said he "willingly accepted responsibility" and "The captain goes down with the ship."[6] He resigned his position as the Louise L. Morrison Chair of Constitutional Law in Baylor Law School on August 19, 2016.[70]
I've never found him a compelling person. I never understood why he gave up his first appointment at Pepperdine:
On April 6, 2004, he was appointed dean of the Pepperdine University School of Law. He originally accepted a position at Pepperdine as the first dean of the newly created School of Public Policy in 1996; however, he withdrew from the appointment in 1998, several months after the Lewinsky controversy erupted.
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)You know me well enough to see that was sarcastic criticism of Barr.
He's a slimeball, hyper partisan prig.
There was no reason to have hired him at Baylor in the first place. There were already people there they could have promoted from within.
And, that "going down with the ship" thing is nonsense. He knew everything and did nothing. He didn't "take responsibility". He got caught not doing his job.
The demotion was fake. He's a fraud, and I think we agree he's not much of a human being.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)after he decided to allow politics to interfere with his career during Bill's second term.
I cannot believe how easily he could have cleaned up Baylor and he didn't. He could have dodged being drafted into whatever it was that was the "Lewinski" affair but he didn't.
Baylor, especially.
ProfessorGAC
(64,995 posts)He allowed politics to change his lane, as you said.
He became a political hack.
If I typed Barr instead of Starr, my fault.
Since I loathe both of them, i could confuse them. Perhaps I typed faster than I should have.
Starr (clarifying now) did nothing at Baylor, except helping to obfuscate a sexual violence scandal.
He should never be asked his opinion on anything ever again.
He's a partisan hack and a slimy human being.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)DTomlinson
(411 posts)Didn't he have to resign from the Presidency of Baylor University in disgrace?