and the RATS take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Posted on 05/07/2024 8:30:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you've been hoping for a solution to the spreading antisemitic protests on college campuses, help may be on the way. This is what's known as hitting them where it hurts. More than a dozen federal judges sent a notification to Columbia University Law School yesterday informing them that they will not be accepting applications from any of their graduates to be law clerks starting with the class of 2024. The judges were led by jurists from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The letter was addressed directly to Columbia President Minouche Shafik. They are not limiting the boycott to only the students taking part in the riots, but the entire graduating class. (Free Beacon)
Thirteen federal judges said Monday that they would no longer hire law clerks from Columbia College or Columbia Law School after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building. The judges cited the "explosion of student disruptions" and the "virulent spread of antisemitism" at Columbia, which has now canceled its main graduation ceremony because of the unrest.
Led by Fifth Circuit appellate judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, who spearheaded a clerkship boycott of Yale Law School in 2022 and Stanford Law School in 2023, as well as by Matthew Solomson on the U.S Court of Federal Claims, the judges wrote in a letter to Columbia president Minouche Shafik that they would no longer hire "anyone who joins the Columbia University community—whether as undergraduates or as law students—beginning with the entering class of 2024."
Few law school graduates go directly into private practice or prominent positions at major firms immediately after finishing school. Many take positions as clerks with established judges where they can gain real-world experience and begin building a network of contacts that will help them later in their careers. This boycott doesn't involve every judge in the nation, but it takes a significant bite out of the potential job pool. Other judges may follow suit if the protests continue.
This may be what it takes to motivate the administrations of these schools to take action. Who is going to pay that much money for a law degree if there is a significant risk that they will wind up with a job flipping burgers as they struggle to pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans? Applying the boycott to the entire school elevates the threat so it doesn't just apply to the protesters. Columbia will have to reconsider its position if it wants to keep attracting the best applicants.
We've already seen employers in other professions aside from law firms cutting off donations to their schools and suggesting that any new applicants who graduated from a university where these riots are taking place would have their job applications moved to the circular file. The rioters keep taking to the streets because they have faced no repercussions for their actions. They are part of the "give us everything for free" generation. But now it appears that the Gaza chickens are coming home to roost.
If the protesters wish to keep up with this hateful nonsense, that's entirely up to them. They shouldn't have to worry too much. I'm sure they should be able to land fine jobs as attorneys in Gaza working for Hamas. Of course, with the tunnels all being flooded, office space may be tough to come by. Just be sure to show up with some facial jewelry and an LGBTQ flag shirt. There aren't nearly as many tall buildings left standing for them to throw you off of.
“Few law school graduates go directly into private practice or prominent positions at major firms immediately after finishing school. Many take positions as clerks with established judges.”
Just the opposite: Nearly all law school grads who take a law position after law school go into private practice or public sector law. Very few get the coveted law clerk positions.
“anyone who joins the Columbia University community—whether as undergraduates or as law students—beginning with the entering class of 2024“
Why not go after the ones who are there now?
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Have you ever noticed how very few American born people, with good old 'all-American' names like Joe Smith or Jane Jones... Or even names like Horace Rockefeller or Milton Carnegie, are at the helm of American institutions, businesses, or bureaucracies anymore?
Why not specifically target the left-leaning law students? The conservative ones shouldn’t suffer from this.
RE: Why not specifically target the left-leaning law students? The conservative ones shouldn’t suffer from this.
That’s what I was thinking too. You don’t assume that EVERY SINGLE LAW STUDENT from Columbia are left-leaning.
Heck, Columbia has over 30,000 students.
Only a few hundred of them were in that protest and even then: 1) Not every one of those in the protest were real Columbia students; 2) Not every Columbia student who joined the protest were LAW students.
You don’t punish the majority of those law students who did not participate in the protest for the idiocy of the tiny minority.
Good, all of these schools, their administration, faculty, and students should realize and face the consequences of their actions. Let them all go get jobs as public defenders.
Collective punishment of people with no connection to any of this is un-American and unethical.
and the RATS take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
Conservative students are affected by this stupid shotgun reaction.
The professors at that school had a large role in the riots. They were ringleaders up on the podium making statements.
If the teachers are like that, if the school tolerates such teachers, it’s a safe bet that their students are getting a poor education.
Totally rational.
Nope. Professors were leading it. If the school tolerates such instructors in the classroom, why would you want a student from there? There are too many other options that turn out better lawyers.
Very rational.
So what? Why would a conservative kid go to a libtard place like Columbia in New York City?
They must not be too “conservative”.
Twelve judges out of over 700.
The professors at that school had a large role in the riots.
Check out what happened at UNC, professors withholding grades from all finals until any suspended protestors a reinstated.
I am skeptical.
All over the country the 90% of the lawyers have been to woke law schools, rewarded for sniping at conservatives, rewarded with jobs as Dems. The lawyers are the source of judges, who are usually long term leftists.
A few-——a few-——conservative lawyers and judges are around. They’ll soon be gone if we lose in November, 2024.
Good point.
And the left-leaning ones are somewhat less mentally competent anyway.
I stopped hiring from Ivy League schools over 10 years ago. Their brains can absorb an awful lot of information, but they cannot develop their own thoughts and execute on them. San that for 200000 you learn to memorize a textbook.
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