Law School Memes for Edgy T14s Endorses Joseph “Sloppy Joe” Biden LSMFET14 Follow Jan 17 · 3 min read

Law School Memes for Edgy T14s (LSMFET14) is a Facebook group of over seventy-three-thousand law students, lawyers, and people interested in law and policy. We are excited to announce our endorsement of Joe Biden for President of the United States.

Joe Biden is what every law student strives to be: a lawyer who has moved seamlessly from the practice to the creation of law while escaping consequences, failing upwards, and showing no particular talent for legal work.

People tell law students all the time, “Even if you don’t do well in law school, you can still have a successful career.” It’s hard to believe. But no one embodies this truth like Joe Biden. Biden plagiarized a paper he submitted as a first-year law student and finished in the bottom quintile of his class while claiming for decades he graduated in the top half[1]. But you know what else he did? Become senator of Delaware. He moved forward and overcame his blunders, somehow.

Joe’s not just a politician, he has a record of legal practice. Joe Biden worked part-time as a public defender in Delaware for a little under a year, which prompted one Joe Biden surrogate to title him “a hero to the Black community[2].” Despite his short tenure, Biden handled many cases. A former client commented, “[t]he jail had a lot of people who had him as their lawyer[3].” His quality of work as a public defender earned him the endearing nickname, “Sloppy Joe[4].”

Every eager law student takes their first lessons on policy and statutory interpretation and thinks to themselves, “I could write better law than that.” But only attorneys like Joe Biden who enter politics can prove it. Joe Biden wrote nuanced legislation to allow the death penalty for dozens more criminal offenses and build more federal private prisons[5]. He took his experience as a practitioner of criminal law and applied it with gusto to criminal justice reform.

We’re not saying Biden’s record on the law is perfect. He supported legislation that prevents people who attended graduate school from discharging student debt in bankruptcy[6], advocated vigorously for unilateral American military intervention in Iraq[7], and supported noted legal curmudgeon Clarence Thomas’ rise to the Supreme Court by promising he would be Thomas’ “most adamant and vigorous defender” against sexual assault accusations by Anita Hill[8]. Biden has not apologized for these mistakes because he understands, as good lawyers do, that apologies lead to liabilities.

Joe Biden is the candidate that embodies the deepest desire of every law student: to graduate from law school and claw one’s way into an illustrious career regardless of talent, intellect, or performance. Joe Biden becoming president would send a powerful message that there is still hope for us everyday Joes. And that maybe, just maybe, we don’t deserve better.

Endorsement policy: In deciding our endorsement, LSM polled our membership of over seventy-three-thousand members and held an internal poll of LSM moderators. The moderator vote counted for 80% of the final scores, while the membership vote counted for 20%. In the interest of transparency, the candidate in first place in the member poll was Bernie Sanders, with more than twice as many votes as any other candidate. Joe Biden finished in 27th place in the member poll, below Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Vermin Supreme, the guy who wrote the “Auto-Parts” jingle, Gritty, Leslie Knope, Bianca Del Rio as Judge Judy, Andrew Yang, baby Yoda, the abolition of the presidency, Marianne Williamson (ironically, unironically, and post-ironically, which were all provided as separate options), Mike Gravel, Karl Marx, Pete Buttigieg, Deee-Lite’s 1990 dance hit “Groove Is In The Heart,” and you (the person reading this). Joe Biden tied for 27th place with Papa John, Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse, and no one (take four years off).