Posted on 06/29/2022 8:58:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
In response to an online petition calling for the removal of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a professor at George Washington Law School, the school put out a statement both defending Thomas’s place on campus and affirming the school’s academic values.
In response to the June 24th Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Jon Kay, a rising junior at George Washington, created an online petition calling for the removal of Justice Clarence Thomas as a lecturer at GW Law. Kay, who only recently learned that Thomas has lectured at GW Law since 2011, started the petition on Change.org this Sunday.
The petition claims that “the employment of Clarence Thomas at George Washington University is completely unacceptable.” According to Kay, “Judge Thomas is actively making life unsafe for thousands of students on our campus.” At the time of writing this article, the petition has amassed 7,414 signatures.
Despite this pressure, GW defended Judge Thomas’ position.
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Christopher Bracey, along with GW Law Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew, sent an email to the GW community on Tuesday with the heading: “Affirming Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression at GW.” …
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Yes and Thomas is a great Justice.
Accademics freedom? What? What about accademics at all!?
To not have Thomas there would make one Wonder if they would reach anything there at all!
This is a movement by schizos who cannot accept to have their comfort zones challenged . Truly the mental ward of school shooter types or other “bullied” angry manifesto types
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