At Rutgers Law School, the wannabe lawyers need to research First Amendment law | Mulshine
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That distinction seems to be lost on the students at Rutgers Law School in Newark.
In a seminary, it would make perfect sense to limit the words considered appropriate for the priests in training. They are being educated to spend their lives thinking lofty thoughts.
That’s not the case with lawyers. They spend their lives dealing with bad behavior. If everyone was good, there wouldn’t be much work for them.
That is the crux of the current kerfuffle at the school.
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Sometimes the most unlikely people lead us into difficult places. Such is the role of Bennie Eugene Bridges, a Central Jersey man who lost his cool three decades ago and decided to eek out some measure of revenge.
Around midnight on a night in September 1988. Bridges found himself in the basement of a home in Roebling, New Jersey for the Sweet Sixteen birthday party of a girl named Cindy.
Bridges got into an argument with a guy named Andy, then stormed out, threatening to return with his “boys.”
He wasn’t through, however. Court records show that Bridges elevated his threat by using a virulent racial epithet that evokes centuries of bigotry and violence against African Americans. As Bridges drove away from the house in his car, he yelled out the window that he was “going back to Trenton to get my (racial epithet)s.”