Posted on 03/19/2022 12:00:40 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
How about we ban free speech at universities named after slave owners?
At least it gives us a standard to apply which I suppose is better than no standard at all.
My point: whatever standard we choose had better be carefully chosen because sooner or later it will come back to bite us in the ass as the other side applies our standard against us.
Perhaps you missed the part where the students shouted down every opinion there other than their own?
They were actively denying speech they did not support, though it was supposed to be a discussion.
They can clerk at the Department of Justice or the FBI, where they will have life time employment and automatic promotions.
I’m not worried about the anti-Romney folks or the Trump lawyers. More likely than not, they were peaceable.
I AM for keeping violent brats out of judges offices, whatever their political stripe — in this case, leftist.
They’re free to get work doing something other than depriving fellow citizens of their Constitutional rights.
That is an accepted constitutional standard.
What about advocating violence at a different time? Or advocating violence at a different time by other members of an organization like, Black Lives Matter or Proud Boys, can they all be banned at a different time and place? Can the Ku Klux Klan march down Main Street with a permit? Can individual Proud Boys who themselves have not otherwise committed violence, demonstrate in Charlottesville? May Black Lives Matter form a club in high school?
In the fact pattern of the law students at Yale, it is not clear that they acted violently nor is it even explicitly clear that they threatened violence. Assume they did not, should we then ban them from clerkships? If some did and some did not, would you ban them all? If we would ban them all doesn't that mean that we are banning them not because of violence but because we abhor their politics?
If we are banning them because of their left-wing politics, is that constitutionally permissible? Is that a standard we want to have applied against us? That is, can the left when they get power ban conservatives because of their right-wing politics?
Yes.
and all federal judges are presumably committed to free speechROTFL.
I certainly don't presume that.
Poison Ivy League
You think that is the same??
Really??
The case is not that they acted violently, advocated or threatened violence, but rather that they clearly demonstrate explicit hostility to the First Amendment.
Hence the sensible warning,
“”I don’t know where I come out on this yet,” District Judge Eric Komitee of the Eastern District of New York wrote, “but agree this is a topic of tremendous societal importance.””
IOW - he thinks it’s a big deal if they decide not to intern ass-hat assholes for being ass-hat assholes - screw them.
So you think that just because they did not actually commit any violence that their behavior is something that should be accepted? They were pushing their perverse agenda of trans crap. You and people like you are the reason this kind of Society wrecking behavior is tolerated.
All the more significant due to the ABA mesmerize(cobra-rat) view of an Eli CV.
Ain’t affirmative action grand?
Nailed it.
If you can’t see the difference you need to rethink it
People shouldn’t get cancelled, unless it’s the person saying they want to fight them.
The school should apologize, but I don’t like a judge saying that.
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