Beltway Politics

So I am sitting in Federal/State Constitutional Law class discussing the Federal right of preemption of state laws, and Prof. McGoldrick digressed into one of his rants, this time concerning the Fed regulation for automobile safety, particularly the automatic seatbelts that were once mandated that all cars would have. His discussion ended the class with the following anecdote...

Apparently, during the 80's he owned a VW Rabbit that had this automatic seat belt, and it was in this car that he had to drive Ed Meese (then Attorney General to Reagan) around. He said that he would usually warn people that the belt would attack them when they closed the door, but he chose not to with Ed. So when Ed got in, it caught the AG by the arm and forced it into his neck and while struggling to get his arm out he exclaimed "What the hell?" McGoldrick then claims that he replied, "That's your federal regulators in action... It's an object lesson."

He is renowned for being openly sexist and racist, but has been teaching for 30 years and as one student put it "...don't bother complaining about him... he is beyond tenure."

He is deeply tied into national legal networks and most of his stories include being rebuked for making inappropriate comments to Supreme Court Justices. I will include those as they come up.