Scalia's Law School Had To Change Its Name Because Of Its Hilarious Acronym
"Mom! Dad! I got into the ASSoL!"
Shortly after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death in mid-February of 2016, a law school in Virginia (or rather, high-rolling donors) wanted to honor the late jurist.
George Mason University School of Law located in Arlington, Virginia announced at the end of March they'd be renaming the law school to the "Antonin Scalia School of Law." The decision to rename the school in honor of Scalia—who infamously touted the second amendment and pushed against equality for gay Americans—came as the result of both a $20 million anonymous donation and $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation.
But, even more recently, GMU Law decided it couldn't possibly rename itself to the Antonin Scalia School of Law. Because of the acronym, of course.
Antonin Scalia School of Law=ASSoL. That's just very, very unfortunate.
Twitter had quite a few things to say about the whole acronym debacle. Some people seemed not so pleased.
Others seemed to find it quite amusing.
And of course jokesters had to make bits.
People seemed to resoundingly agree, though, that "ASSoL" was a fitting acronym for anything having to do with Justice Scalia.
Really, people just couldn't get enough of the ASSoL jokes.
Unfortunately, ASSoL will never come into existence.
After noticing the mocking all over Twitter, GMU law school decided to rename the school to the Antonin Scalia Law School. What a shame. Scalia's ASSoL legacy would probably be better than Supreme Court Justice legacy, if there's a difference.