Posted on 04/10/2022 4:44:37 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Open letter is the latest and loudest salvo against the Ivy League law school
U.S. senators, governors from across the country, and other prominent figures have signed an open letter asking Yale Law School to discipline the "vitriolic mob" that derailed a bipartisan panel on free speech, the latest call for consequences amid the law school's inaction.
The letter, sent to the Yale Law administration, included signatures from Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, nine members of the House of Representatives, and the governors of Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Mississippi, and Idaho. It urges the school to punish the "physical intimidation and menacing behavior" directed at the speakers, who were escorted out of the event by police after a rowdy, vulgar protest.
"Instead of engaging with the panelists, a shocking number of Yale Law students hurled constant insults and obscenities at them and tried to prevent them from speaking and being heard. Our nation desperately needs the next generation of attorneys, legislators, judges, and Supreme Court justices to be marked by the character and values that undergird the American legal profession and a free society."
To that end, the letter calls on the law school to "condemn the behavior of students who violated other people's rights" and "take appropriate disciplinary actions in keeping with Yale's free speech policies." It also demands that the law school "retract and/or issue corrections to" its initial statement about the protest, which the law school claimed had not disrupted the event or necessitated police assistance. Both claims were subsequently debunked by audio from the event.
The dean of Yale Law School, Heather Gerken, has so far resisted these calls.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Governors and members of Congress weren’t the only ones to sign the letter. Ben Carson, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, added his name to the list, as did 24 state attorneys general and a number of academics and nonprofit leaders. All told, over 1,400 people signed.
The missive marks a crescendo to a chorus of outrage that has beset the law school in recent weeks.
One day after news of the protest broke, D.C. Circuit judge Laurence Silberman floated the possibility of denying clerkships to any student involved in the disruption. A week later, the dean of Berkeley Law School wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post saying the Yale protesters should “face disciplinary action” for attempting a “heckler’s veto.”
And on March 31, Yale Law professor Kate Stith called on her colleagues to recognize the disruption as a “blatant violation of Yale’s Free Expression policy,” which prohibits interfering “with speakers’ ability to be heard and of community members to listen.”
Yale created the vitriolic mob and will continue to support the fascist mob as it shuts down thought and speech.
The scary part is that those highly privileged yale grads will go on to become mayors, governors and presidents.
The University IS the mob.
why go where you are not wanted leave these useful idiots to their own demise
Apparently the woman in charge is above her pay grade. She’s an incompetent who was promoted beyond her ability to perform. She needs to step aside and let someone who can do the job take over.
It is interesting how it only takes one liberal complaint to spur authorities to change things, but this large chorus of complaints by conservatives will probably be ignored....
“I will literally fight you, b****!”
Yale alum need to address THAT...dollars talk, right?
Yale is the democrat party.
They’re not going to give in to the pressure.
Those students will all be loyal democrats.
Therefore, to punish the students and to punish Yale, is to punish the democrat party.
Most colleges and universities are staffed by democrats, which means that they would all have to be pressured to stop their liberal indoctrination.
All of the graduates of the liberal universities would have to be branded with ‘democrat’ on their foreheads, in order to stop their insanity. But, knowing how insane the left has been and is, they would happily wear that brand on their foreheads.
But, they need to be tracked and derailed and stopped, if this country is going to survive their insanity.
Stop electing and appointing people from Yale to gov’t positions.
Orwell's Two Minutes Hate.
Yale has such a huge endowment it could probably function for twenty=five years without need for outside help.
Any democrats sign it?
Because, someday those scum may become SCOTUS...
What is needed is more community involvement. Bring overwhelming numbers of like minded people to these events. Then do not allow these disruptions to take place. Our fathers have fought and died to secure and protect the right to free speech. When these goons show up to assault that right they must be immediately beaten back, and not tolerated. Expelled from the venue at once. If they refuse, there must be instant consequences.
Eli Yale must be rolling over in his grave. Yale is OVERRATED!! So his 99% of the Universities...
Yes, pack the house with supporters, then have a version of this movie clip. “Now, youse can’t leave.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_lijLYuw-o
I noticed that my two worthless Senators from Connecticut are not on the list.
I’m sure they side with the mob.
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