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Stanford Students Who Shouted Down Federal Judge to Get Mandatory Free-speech Training
New American ^ | 2/26/2023 | Michael Tennant

Posted on 03/27/2023 7:08:41 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

All students will be required to attend a “mandatory half-day session … on the topic of freedom of speech and the norms of the legal profession.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


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"Martinez and Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne sent Duncan a formal letter of apology, saying they were 'taking steps to ensure that something like this does not happen again.'

I'm sure that 1/2 day session will prevent a "heckler's veto" from happening again.

1 posted on 03/27/2023 7:08:41 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
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To: Bon of Babble

Should be required in every school that gets Federal dollars for every freshman class.


2 posted on 03/27/2023 7:11:31 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Bon of Babble

That’ll show ‘em...


3 posted on 03/27/2023 7:13:37 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: EandH Dad

I agree - but far more than 1/2 day session. Students are required to take an entire semester class of “ethnic studies” - my son took one on Asians - as a condition of graduation.

Should be a semester-long, mandated class - with oversight as to the content so it isn’t hijacked by lefties that run the universities now. They would rattle on about “hate speech” not being protected by the First Amendment - with “hate speech” being defined as anything they say it is.


4 posted on 03/27/2023 7:15:05 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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Well, it is a start. They should also be put on probation for a year or until they graduate. And required to politely attend all 1st amendment speakers. Maybe invite Trump to speak?


5 posted on 03/27/2023 7:15:13 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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How many hours of diversity training is undone by four hours of free speech training?

Perhaps a good old fashioned harsh life lesson is required. One way or another, sooner, but probably later, that will happen.

6 posted on 03/27/2023 7:15:40 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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As befits a law-school head, Martinez presented a lengthy legal argument as to why the First Amendment, which California law applies to Stanford, does not permit a “heckler’s veto” over speech the heckler does not like, especially in the case of “a university classroom setting for a guest speaker invited by a student organization.” Stanford policy, too, prohibits such behavior.

Since Stanford policy prohibits such behavior all those that participated should have been immediately suspended, bet it would not happen again. This BS class is too little too late.

Justice delayed is Justice denied.
7 posted on 03/27/2023 7:16:51 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Bon of Babble

New law schools are clearly needed.

Also, law school should not be so expensive.


8 posted on 03/27/2023 7:17:42 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The class will be taught by a militant low IQ DEI specialist. These people are full of hatred for white people.


9 posted on 03/27/2023 7:23:14 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
They'll pay the price later when judges refuse to hire them - as they refuse to hire Yale grads:

The Telegraph:

Judges refuse to hire ‘woke’ Yale graduates amid cancel culture row

"A dozen senior US judges have promised a hiring boycott of graduates of Yale Law School in response to claims of "cancel culture" at the prestigious institution, accusing it of undermining free speech and intellectual diversity...."

10 posted on 03/27/2023 7:23:26 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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Sure hope they include Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc., 425 U.S. 748 (1976). In commercial speech, the First Amendment includes the Right to Hear. Just think about all the Pfizer, Moderna, Ivermectin, etc. speech that was shut down and “disappeared”.


11 posted on 03/27/2023 7:23:44 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: EandH Dad

Along with a mandatory transfer to community college to learn basic civics before applying to be reinstated.


12 posted on 03/27/2023 7:29:55 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Bon of Babble

> “ethnic studies” class.

Do they have one on the Irish?


13 posted on 03/27/2023 7:43:54 AM PDT by glorgau
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"all students will be required...," not just the woke ones.
14 posted on 03/27/2023 7:46:22 AM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Bon of Babble

They’ll instantly begin creating a ruckus at these half-day sessions which will require that they attend a full-day session. That’ll learn ‘em.


15 posted on 03/27/2023 7:51:00 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: Bon of Babble

They’ll instantly begin creating a ruckus at these half-day sessions which will require that they attend a full-day session. That’ll learn ‘em.


16 posted on 03/27/2023 7:51:37 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: wrcase

I’ll be required to attend the double-posting session.


17 posted on 03/27/2023 7:52:26 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: Bon of Babble

“You can’t say that here, this is Free-Speech Training!”


18 posted on 03/27/2023 7:53:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bon of Babble

What a joke. It might be more instructive for Stanford Law to re-evaluate its low admissions standards, starting with banning septum rings, purple hair, and emotional twelve year olds.


19 posted on 03/27/2023 8:18:16 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Get rid of this position:
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach
Forget training the students. The faculty needs fixing.


20 posted on 03/27/2023 8:44:24 AM PDT by sasquatch
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