Sarah Posner is the author of 'Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind.'
The Associated Press and The Washington Post have investigated a brief and previously opaque episode in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s legal career: his roughly two years, from 2010 to 2012, as dean of the Paul Pressler School of Law at Louisiana College . Both reports shed new and valuable light on dysfunction and secrecy at the fledgling law school, raising legitimate questions about Johnson’s managerial capabilities and commitment to transparency.
The school was to be named for Paul Pressler, at the time a hero to ultraconservative Southern Baptists like Johnson. A former Texas state judge, Pressler had been the chief architect of the 1970s right-wing takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in the name of “biblical inerrancy.” What followed amounted to a purge of more liberally minded Baptists from the denomination, and the Christian right’s decades-long marriage to the GOP.
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