Conlawprof & Casablanca: “I’m shocked, shocked ....”

Rick: “How can you close me up? On what grounds?” 

Captain Renault: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”

Professor ZZZ: “I am shocked that constitutional law professors are [T]rump supporters. Absolutely stunned.”

Tillman: I don't believe I have said anything on this listserv from which you could fairly derive that I am a Trump supporter. If it “shocks” you that in a constitutional law listserv there might be Trump supporters—in a nation where around 48%** of the people voted for Trump—then that might tell one & all something about the real state of the legal professoriate. My comments have largely gone to (what I see as) overheated hyperbole. Professor ZZZ has confirmed my point better than I possibly could.

Seth

PS: I ran for Congress as a Democrat in 1996. See Rhodes Cook & Alice V. McGillivray, U.S. Primary Elections, 1995–1996: President, Congress, Governors: A Handbook of Election Statistics 102 (1997), <http://tinyurl.com/j2q4kom>; see also <http://tinyurl.com/jll5fkg>; <http://tinyurl.com/hevgdtt>; <http://tinyurl.com/zm3hsuv>; <http://www.washingtontimes.com/elections/IL/districts/IL09/profile/>. 

Seth Barrett Tillman, Conlawprof & Casablanca: “I’m shocked, shocked ....,” New Reform Club (Jan. 26, 2019, 4:30 PM), <https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2019/01/conlawprof-casablanca-im-shocked-shocked.html>. 

**Wikipedia reports that Trump’s share of popular vote was 46.1%. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election>