UA Law School Criticized For Promoting Law Professor’s Book
The University of Alabama Law School is taking heat from some conservatives for promoting a book written by the daughter-in-law of assassinated Federal Judge Robert S. Vance. "Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy," by UA professor Joyce White Vance is listed on the New York Times and Amazon "Best Seller List" for non-fiction.
Vance is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Before that she was appointed by former president Barack Obama to serve as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama but resigned when Donald Trump was elected president the first time.
Vance has earned her liberal credentials by serving as a legal analyst for left-wing MSNBC and through previous writings like "Civil Discourse" and two podcasts.
Amazon describes Vance's book as, "a clarion call to action." On its website Amazon asks readers to, "Consider this (book) the birth of a countermovement to Project 2025 (the policy blueprint developed by the conservative Heritage Foundation and other MAGA think-tanks), a rallying cry for citizen engagement to combat the second Trump administration and save American democracy."
The estranged niece of President Trump endorsed the book, calling it "Brilliant, galvanizing, and inspirational. A road map to help us find our way out of the darkness."
In the book Vance writes, "The cavalier disregard for American norms and the abandon with which the new administration acted felt like a bad nightmare we couldn't wake up from."
Vance lives in Birmingham with her husband.
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