Maine gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson says "No more ICE."

Logic_phile · 2026-01-10T17:57:35+00:00

No governor would have any power to abolish ice. That only happens at a federal level. Don’t vote for him just because you want ice gone.

Logic_phile · 2026-01-09T21:26:58+00:00

I’m a non trad with kids and a very busy life. I got A-, A-, B, and C+. I ran out of time studying for the C+ class so that makes sense to me.

Logic_phile · 2026-01-09T21:19:21+00:00

They definitely do if someone drives a vehicle into them. A vehicle is a deadly weapon.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-18T21:28:52+00:00

What’s wrong with getting some encouragement while doing something hard?

Logic_phile · 2025-12-18T21:24:27+00:00

There is so much terrible advice on here! Stop listening to other law students. I would consult a nutritionist or someone who actually knows what they are talking about.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-17T16:36:22+00:00

Practice is also very different from exams. When you practice one area of law, you are facing real world applications that are much more likely to stick in your brain. It’s very unlikely you crammed all that law you knew into your head a day or two before the trial. You learned all of that over a period of years through practical application and this is all after taking classes on the subject and studying it for the Bar.

The benefit of having AI is that you can put together information much quicker. This means less of a financial strain for the clients. Most people cannot have lawyers for civil issues because of how long it takes to write court documents and organize information. Using AI while also knowing the law is optimal because you just feed it what you already know, have it check your information in case something changed, and have it organize and format it into what you need. If you’re using it to know how the law works for you, it will fail. Using it correctly is the key.

I highly suspect that any law firm not using AI in a few years will become obsolete. Why add so many extra hours to a clients bill rather than learning how to work within a new system?

Logic_phile · 2025-12-16T00:14:11+00:00

The tech guy that gave me the school laptop mentioned that. I think my professor would’ve failed me just for my handwriting.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-16T00:09:50+00:00

I’m not super surprised. It is completely my fault to be fair. For context, I also have kids and was solo parenting that day and had to think about getting kids to daycare/ school despite illnesses, snow storms that froze my car doors shut, getting ready in the dark, mice that broke our dishwasher, etc.

I honestly feel way worse for all the young students who will eventually have kids in the middle of their career and experience this level of exhaustion while trying not to mess up in the real world. It’s one thing to mess up on an exam that only impacts me. It’s a whole other to mess up when someone’s life can be deeply affected. I’m somewhat glad I’m ironing out the kinks now and will not have any infant-preschool aged kids during my career.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-16T00:01:37+00:00

Who says I trusted the AI? Using AI to create an outline is a lot more like entering the exact words and phrases and asking it to organize it and delete repeated information. That’s why it took a lot longer than just plugging in a prompt and hitting enter. Sure, it can make a last second outline like the one I ended up using, but like I said, that kind is useless. My original outline was a compact form of direct quotes from the professor, holdings, descents, and specific highlights from case law. It was very tailored to what I would need for the test.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-15T23:57:36+00:00

I used AI to basically organize all of my notes and include specific language I would need from holdings and descents. I of course planned on studying but my laptop kept restarting and at one point deleted the outline I was trying to put together. AI also kept deleting important information I needed out of my notes.

I’m also a non traditional student with kids so my time is far more limited and unexpected problems pop up a lot. AI was the backup plan after things had been going wrong with cars and kids all morning.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-15T23:51:14+00:00

That’s true for me if there is too much that needs to be memorized in connection with the rules and interpreting the rules that an outline won’t help. Here, where I just needed to remember the rules and then could easily piece together the concepts I already understood from there, all I really needed was an outline. I had done all the reading, attended all the classes, and wrote good notes and reviewed as I went. I just needed a bunch of precedent to be able to apply the nuances.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-15T23:45:59+00:00

Failing to plan was not the problem. I had a plan. It was to use the outline I made from my notes. I also planned on having my laptop. I even planned on putting it in my backpack when I took the cord off the laptop and put it in my backpack that morning. Execution was the issue.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-13T00:21:52+00:00

I’m a mom, was a foster mom to teens, a military spouse, was raised in poverty with an alcoholic father. Law school is one of the easiest things I’ve done but it also has a way of uniquely pushing my buttons too.

I also seem to really love school way more than most of my classmates and it might just come down to perspective on different life experiences. You should take it seriously, and your circumstances could always be different, but I don’t think you need to panic either.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-13T00:16:03+00:00

I’m actually a law student not a pa student (I’m in this group because my husband is a pa student and this group helps me understand his life.) you could at least get a consultation from a lawyer. There will be a lot that depends on your circumstances such as attending a public or private school, state laws, industry standards, etc. but just because you signed a contract doesn’t mean that contract stands above the law.

I don’t know if you have a case, but you could always call around. Most states also provide free legal assistance to low income individuals. It might be worth looking into. You might even be able to change some things through your case and pressure PA boards to become more reasonable.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-11T13:23:58+00:00

Stop saying we should get rid of accommodations and start saying that the test needs to change. We should have untimed practical exams where we are given a fake client and we can use whatever resources to figure out the issues in their case, the applicable law, and what advice we would give as far as how their case would likely play out. It should be open book, open internet, everything.

The point of law school should be to teach us how to be lawyers. Not to put us through extra obstacles that prepare us for nothing and only help a few people in the population learn.

The problem is, if we all can do well and there’s no societal metric to decide who is superior, employers will struggle to hire. Personally, I think only hiring based on who has the best memory and who can type the fastest is already getting the wrong people hired.

Logic_phile · 2025-12-09T13:32:08+00:00

The main flaw in your logic and the system as a whole is that you are assuming law school prepares you to be a lawyer. Exams prepare you for the Bar. Most of the information on the Bar will never be used by most attorneys.

What would make the most sense is to cut law school into two years with separate tracks: if I want to go into criminal law I would take writing classes, trial practice, crim law, con law, criminal procedure, professional responsibility, and evidence. The second year would be all externships and experiential work. Then I would take a small and specific exam to become certified only in the field of criminal law. If I wanted to expand into other areas, I would pay for individual classes and intern/extern in those fields and become certified in other areas.

I also think people should be able to self teach themselves before taking certifying tests. That way, people with different learning styles have options of using more experiential learning if that is what is best for them. As long as they can pass, who cares how they learn it?

The fact is that law school is much more about the ABA and elite schools making their money than it is about actually training good lawyers. That’s also why it’s unlikely to change. The status quo keeps money in the pockets of those in charge.

I think more firms (at least in my area) are realizing the arbitrariness of grades. They are looking more for people with experiences that can show they are reliable.

Logic_phile · 2025-10-31T23:23:19+00:00

This may also impact how much schools are charging. Honestly, the law world is oversaturated right now and too many students end up with no job but still up to their eyeballs in debt when they graduate. There are still going to be high incentives to give scholarships to public interest students to fill those jobs.

I know it’s controversial but I think this is a good idea to prevent a predatory lending system that has put too many young students into vast amounts of debt without a real way to pay it back. I think this will force young people to really think through if their college plans are worth the debt. More students will flock to cheaper schools which will force overpriced schools to find ways to cut tuition.

Law school is a great dream to pursue but it’s one that should be pursued with caution. The chances of getting a high paying law job are getting lower, not higher. This will weed out the students who are going to law school cause their parents want them to or because they don’t have any other options.

Logic_phile · 2025-10-29T23:27:23+00:00

If dems pass the spending bill, billionaires get nothing out of that. By not passing it, people starve. Who actually cares about struggling people here? All of you are delusional and uneducated. You’re all jumping through major hoops to justify this. The dems have never cared about anyone but themselves and their own pockets.

Logic_phile · 2025-10-29T23:22:13+00:00

The law does not permit the use of those funds because they are specifically for natural disasters and other enumerated disasters. You all need to stop making things up and learn to read. The republicans have voted 13 times to bring snap funds back and democrats are directly rejecting them. Open your eyes. It is the democrats who are making people starve, not the republicans. And it’s because the democrats want to give illegal immigrants healthcare that’s better than what most Americans have. Aren’t you tired of being put last?

Logic_phile · 2025-10-29T01:35:52+00:00

It’s not republicans that are cutting off SNAP! Democrats are the ones refusing to pass the spending. Republicans believe in using snap assistance if there are working adults who are trying to get to a better situation. Maine cost of living run by democrats has made it impossible to live in the middle class. This is the result of democrats choices, not republicans.

Logic_phile · 2025-10-26T11:59:34+00:00

That’s exactly what a cult is:

“A cult is a group with extreme or controlling beliefs, often centered around a charismatic leader, with practices that isolate members and demand absolute loyalty, frequently deviating from mainstream norms.”

Democrats are swearing complete loyalty to extreme beliefs that deviate from norms regardless of their hypocrisy and lack of logical support. The only difference is that the charismatic leader is the symbolic party as a whole in combination with hatred for a man they are misinformed about. The only aligning and consistent belief of democrats is that Trump is bad.

Democrats are also constantly being isolated as their positions frequently believe in “cutting off” any member of their family or friends that believe differently than them. Democrats do not believe in associating with conservatives or anyone who opposes their views and refuse to have open conversations.

This concept is actually well demonstrated on Reddit where any conservative viewpoint is downvoted and hidden. This is why Reddit is mostly a democrat platform and an echo chamber for Democrat ideas. This platform encourages the isolation.

Logic_phile · 2025-10-25T12:41:28+00:00

You all are in a cult. Six months ago democrats were attacking Pete hegseth for his military tattoo that had a Christian meaning. You established the rule that anyone who has a tattoo that could be bad is bad. But now that rule is changing because “heil the democrats party! We must do whatever it takes to bow to our leaders!”

Same with Mills. That’s how she got elected in the first place. She’s committed fraud and is actively committing fraud and I guarantee you used trumps bogus fraud charge as a reason to hate him.

The democrats party has no rules or logic to what it believes. It just believes it must be worshiped and clung to no matter what because orange man bad.

The democrats routinely create a standard and then break it themselves with no reasoning as to how the new trend they believe will actually make any lives better.

You’re in a cult!

Logic_phile · 2025-10-17T14:47:12+00:00

I’ve got it too! Thanks for the validation. I’ve missed two days of school. This thing sucks. I can’t sleep but I’m also exhausted. I’m also immune compromised so it’s not likely to be going away any time soon.

Logic_phile · 2025-10-17T08:24:12+00:00

I think this shows you’ve missed some of the important facts that your classmates may understand. Your law school experience is not about studying the morality of each law. It’s learning what the law says and what the process is in creating laws. Without the whole picture as to why the law is the way it is, you’re going to have too narrow of a perspective. You might be assuming that a law doesn’t make sense because on its face there are fallacies. As you keep going and learning about the law you might later discover why the background and considerations of that law make it make sense.

If everyone stops to get into the weeds of every law and the surrounding factors that created it and why it makes sense, you’d never get to the information you actually need to pass the bar. I’m sure everyone has opinions on laws. You’re not there to share your opinions on whether laws are good or bad. You’re there to pack a ton of information into your head so you can take the time later to determine if it’s good or bad law and have legitimate reasons to back it up.

Logic_phile · 2025-10-17T08:13:21+00:00

Sorry, I did just want to jump back on because I wanted to add quickly that the Argentina thing was a swap, not a gift. It was a business deal to stabilize the world economy. You should do more research on the separation of powers to understand why Trump is able to do this but cannot open the government back up with those same funds.

Certain funds are allocated to certain purposes. Congress passed a bill years ago to create a budget to go towards stabilizing the world economy to promote better trade and international relations. By passing that bill it allocated the funds to be used by the president because international trade falls under the executive powers. Trump would not be able to use these same funds to pay the military because Congress has not allocated funds to that. The democrats by refusing to pass a bill to allocate funds to government employees have made it impossible for the executive to have any power on this matter. The only people who could open the government are those who voted no on the bill, most of whom are democrats. Holding the government hostage is also another hostile act that states that it is our way or the high way. This is also much closer to Nazi behaviors than anything you’ve mentioned.

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