University of Chicago Law School Classmates of Architect of TX Law SB 8 Denounce Effort As Dangerous and Lawless
We are graduates of the University of Chicago Law School and classmates or law school contemporaries of Jonathan Mitchell, widely reported as the architect of the Texas anti-abortion law. Like Mr. Mitchell, we were fortunate to learn the law from some of the country’s most distinguished legal minds, like Jack Goldsmith, Martha Nussbaum, Barack Obama, Richard Posner and Cass Sunstein. We learned — and firmly believe — that the foundation of our legal system is respect for the rule of law.
As a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and a fellow University of Chicago Law School graduate, Mr. Mitchell should know better than to construct a law deliberately intended to evade federal law. That approach is neither smart nor creative — it is lawless.
No matter what you believe about Roe v. Wade, deliberately creating a state law to dodge current Supreme Court precedent is dangerous. It erodes the rule of law and undermines our legal system. As students who attended the University of Chicago Law School at the same time as Mr. Mitchell, we cannot, and do not, condone any law specifically and intentionally designed to undermine our legal system.
Suyash Agrawal ‘02
Amanda Basta ‘02
Jeremy Bates ‘01
Jonathan Becker ‘01
Beth Berg ‘00
Nicole Biguenet Pedersen ‘02
Melissa Bloom Brand ‘00
Wes Brown ‘01
Lisa Brown ‘01
Greg Brown ‘01
Joan Burns ‘01
Brian Butler ‘00
Maria Amelia Calaf ‘03
Rafael Castellanos ‘02
Irene Chase Estrada ‘01
Brandon Chaves ‘02
Marty Chester ‘01
Carmen Christopher, ‘03
Erin Childress Thakkar ‘02
Victor Chiu ‘01
Diane Bell ‘03
Leslie Danks Burke ‘02
Mereke Decker Carrizosa ‘01
Megan Deluhery ‘02
Candace Dohn Banks ‘01
Irene Donovan ‘01
John Durrant ‘01
Daniela Dwyer ‘03
David Erroll ‘01
Jennifer Escalante ‘03
Mariam Farah ‘00
Michael Ford ‘01
Karen Fried Halverstam ‘01
Ellen Fulton ‘00
Ameri Gianotti Klafeta ‘02
Emily Glendinning ‘02
Nicole Goldstein ‘02
Jeremiah Goulka ‘01
David Graver ‘00
Amy Grider ‘03
Laura Hazelwood ‘02
Mathew Harrington ‘02
Ethan Heinz ‘00
Jay Hines-Shah ‘00
Heather Hormel Miller ‘02
Sara Hornstra ‘01
Ben Hulse ‘02
Rob Icsezen ‘02
Dan Johnson ‘00
Marni Karlin ‘01
Louis A. Kessler ‘02
Susan L. Kim ‘00
Cameron Krieger ‘01
Jay Kugler DeYoung ‘00
Matt Lamm ‘02
Margaret Lavanish ‘01
Katherine Laxton Alvarez ‘01
Ariel Levinson-Waldman ‘01
Rachel Levinson-Waldman ‘02
Melissa Liazos ‘01
Noah Lipschultz ‘01
Kathleen Lockard Palma ‘02
Michele Lomax ’00
Kathryn Lucas ‘00
Jennifer Marion ‘03
Christopher May ‘00
Michelle McGuinness ‘01
Adolfo Mondargon ‘01
Stacy Monahan Tucker ‘01
Alex Montgomery ‘02
Stephanie Morris ‘02
Amy Nieset Drew ‘02
Shelby Pasarell Tsai ‘01
Melina Patterson ‘00
Wendy Perlmutter Finkel ‘02
Nat Piggee ‘00
Rachael Pontikes ‘01
David Pope ’01
Norberto Quintana ‘03
Adam Rappaport ‘01
Eric Rinehart ’01
Denise Robinson ‘02
Gary Scanlon ‘02
Elizabeth Scott ‘01
Sarah Smith ‘00
Aaron Solomon ‘02
Andrea St. Amand ‘01
Heather Sullivan ‘00
Lisa Swedenborg Getson ‘00
Elizabeth Hotchkiss Tong ‘00
Brian Trachtenberg ‘02
Heather Kelly Trachtenberg ‘02
Miguel Villarreal ‘00
Alia Vinson ‘02
Lesley Wexler ‘02
Tiffany Woodie ‘00
Wendy Wu ‘01
Gladys Zolna ‘03
