“Lacked the character and fitness” required to be a lawyer? I am having a hard time wrapping my head around that.
Yeah, that’s a hell of a low bar. Orly Taitz is a lawyer.
From an on-line, unaccredited, non-ABA approved law school with a 31% first time bar pass rate.
Ave Maria is a Catholic law school- accredited- but it’s not Catholic like Notre Dame so much as HYPER Catholic, as in what Bob Jones U is to most Methodist affiliated liberal arts colleges or as in most churchgoing Catholics would find their policies “get a life” strict. Not sure if that weakens or strengthens their comments on his character and fitness.
He couldn’t get accepted to Jesus Fucking Christ law school.
One of the posts from Shirvell’s blog: “Chris Armstrong has participated in numerous homosexual orgies in U Mich dorm rooms, one in October 2009”.
I didn’t know that “U Mich dorm rooms” was a synonym for “my nightly fantasies”.
Part of me hopes that Shirvell will be forced to get help and emerge from this a better person. Another part of me hopes “forced to get help” will mean ‘end up living under a bridge in Milwaukee in February’. Though he’s missing a sure bet by not dropping the Catholicism and moving to Topeka where I’m sure the Phelps clan would provide him with a teenaged wife or two. He could even join the law firm.
Sorry, Michigan’s stuck with him. Wisconsin doesn’t want him in February or any other month.
Wish someone had asked him how he knew, especially with such specificity…
You can pratically see the words, “…and he didn’t invite ME.” floating in a thought balloon over the text.
Well, he didn’t invite me either and I didn’t start a blog. I just curled up on the kitchen floor and ate a gallon of Haggen-Daz while weeping silently.
Hooray for being well adjusted!
Oh - is that the proper protocol for being snubbed by the U Mich Homosexual Orgies?
I’ll keep that in mind.
I’m increasingly glad I didn’t vote for Armstrong for Michican Student Body president. No excusing bad manners.
Any University really. But not a community college. That’s a totally different protocol.
And I should know. I’ve been snubbed by all the best gay orgies.
Pretty sure everybody sitting for a state bar has to go through a “character and fitness” check before being certified to take the bar. Despite the name, its not much more than a background check - i.e. any arrests, DUI’s, incidents of scholastic dishonesty, etc. Fortunately, it doesn’t require soul schmears or there would be far fewer attorneys out there.
Ava Maria may be a little more “in-depth” than most.
Just saw an update to this story and thought it might be fun to share:
Asshole Andrew Shirvell has been ordered to pay $4.5 million to the gay student he attacked as a Michigan assistant attorney general (he’s since been fired).
One more for the good guys! 
I find it interesting that the AP story you linked only calls Shirvell’s blog an “anti-gay blog.”
The blog was called Chris Armstrong Watch! What would he have had to call his blog in order for them to recognize it targeted one guy?
Thanks for the update.
Mr Shrivell certainly puts garden-variety stalker-with-a-crush cases into perspective…
I suspect he’ll be out of the closet eventually, just as soon as he can chew through the straps…
Armstrong sued Shirvell.
Armstrong was willing to settle for an apology and a retraction. Shirvell, who represented himself, declined and held his ground that his blog was a freedom of speech issue. The jury awarded Armstrong 4.5 million. Shirvelle says he’s unemployed and there’s no way he can pay that amount.
Wasn’t Shirvell a lawyer?
A crappy one, apparently.