Fed Judge Warns Against Hiring From Yale Law

freebeacon ^ | March 18, 2022 | Aaron Sibarium

[MarvinStinson]

A federal judge has encouraged all of his colleagues to "carefully consider" whether the Yale Law School students who attempted to shout down a bipartisan panel on free speech "should be disqualified from potential clerkships."

D.C. Circuit judge Laurence Silberman sent an email on Thursday to all federal judges in the United States, urging them to take the fracas at the nation's top law school seriously.

"The latest events at Yale Law School," Silberman wrote, "prompt me to suggest that students who are identified as those willing to disrupt any such panel discussion should be noted. All federal judges—and all federal judges are presumably committed to free speech—should carefully consider whether any student so identified should be disqualified from potential clerkships."

The email set off a flurry of replies from Silberman's colleagues, several of whom expressed interest in discussing the matter further.

"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."

The emails come amid revelations that the protest was even more disruptive than initially reported. According to Original Jurisdiction‘s David Lat, students in a federal courts class across the hall reported that the "floor was shaking," and students on a different floor could hear the din while they were taking an exam.

The law school also had to move a faculty meeting online because attendees couldn't hear anything over the tumult. Faculty at the meeting kept looking to Heather Gerken, the Dean of Yale Law School, to confront the protesters, according to Lat, but she did nothing.

After news of the protest broke, the law school released a statement on Thursday alleging that police were only "on hand" to ensure that the protesters quieted down, not to protect the safety of panelists. "Fortunately," the statement claims, police "assistance was not needed and the event went forward until its conclusion."

But audio from the panel indicates it was drowned out at several points by the protesters, whose chants went on for more than 10 minutes. The din drowns out Kristen Waggoner, the general counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom, right as she begins speaking, and chants of "protect trans kids" make it extremely difficult to hear the panel for several minutes.

The audio also suggests that Yale police officers escorted the panelists to a patrol car outside out of concern for their safety—contradicting Yale's claim that the police only came to ensure the protesters quieted down.

"We think the protesters are going to try to follow us to lunch," Zack Austin, the president of the Yale Federalist Society, tells the panel's organizers after conferring with the officers, who say they have a "vehicle on site." So the panelists "are going to take the squad car and meet us at the restaurant," Austin explained.

Kristen Waggoner, the speaker who was the main target of the protest, confirmed that she and her co-panelist did indeed ride in the squad car after being escorted out of the building by Yale police. Members of the Federalist Society walked—though Austin instructed them to "take a very circuitous route."

As the students make their exit, protesters can be heard booing and shouting: "shame, shame."

[kiryandil]

Holy cr@p.

[MarvinStinson]

"The latest events at Yale Law School," Silberman wrote, "prompt me to suggest that students who are identified as those willing to disrupt any such panel discussion should be noted.

"All federal judges—and all federal judges are presumably committed to free speech—should carefully consider whether any student so identified should be disqualified from potential clerkships."

[antceecee]

Amen!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Good. They can flip burgers until they’re ready to behave, assuming the fast food joints don’t have Burger-Matics going already.

[TakebackGOP]

I don’t support this. This is like when they wanted to ban people who called Mitt Romney a traitor on the plane from flying or when they wanted to hurt Trump’s election attorneys. David Brock and Jake Tapper didn’t want them to get work.

[minnesota_bound]

How do you know someone went to Yale or Harvard?
They tell you in the first minute of meeting you....

[Fai Mao]

No it is not the same at all.

[Gnome1949]

We are on the precipice of a society filled with such hate, no civil discussion may take place.

Who wants trash like this inside the legal system?

I don’t want this trash to become lawyers OR clerks of judges.

We certainly never want such prejudice sitting as judges.

We have seen societies in which no dissent is allowed. Those societies are the ones with concentration camps.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

I fully support this. Sane, rational people, like judge Silberman, need to speak up. These fascists have gotten away with far too much for far too long. If I had my way, the school officials who enabled these asshats as well as the hooligans themselves would all be thrown in the hoosegow.

[TheWriterTX]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

If they are so void of human decency or standard intelligence, if they are incapable of recognizing how their actions run contrary to their alleged chosen profession, they don’t deserve to be considered for a position of power.

They are not fit for purpose.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Because Trump’s attorneys were all up in the Biden campaign’s face challenging them to a fistfight and threatening to follow them to a restaurant.

And don’t get me started on those anti-Romney people, rioting in cities from coast to coast.

[gattaca]

The New York Times Admits That ‘America Has a Free Speech Problem’

“Many on the left refuse to acknowledge that cancel culture exists at all,” laments the paper.

https://reason.com/2022/03/18/new-york-times-america-free-speech-problem/

[nathanbedford]

Your warning points us to some necessary soul-searching. As conservatives do we support or oppose events because they reflect the Constitution or do we support or oppose events because we like or dislike the result politically?

So we dislike hiring leftists for judicial clerkships where they can influence judges opinions and perhaps begin a career lending themselves in black robes where they can do even more harm. Do we then support state action to discourage that i.e. action by federal judges in hiring?

But we also dislike teaching BLM propaganda in schools where children of tender age, even younger than law students at Yale, are easily indoctrinated with unpatriotic values we despise. Do we then oppose state action? Do we invoke one state action, such as federal law, to enjoin another state action, state boards of education?

To put it in its rawest terms and to paraphrase your reply, do we favor banning Mitt Romney on airplanes for his opinions but oppose banning Marjorie Taylor Greene for hers?

What is the constitutional principle involved, if any? Equal protection of the laws? Application of government power? If no constitutional provision is involved, what then?

[Guenevere]

Absolutely not the same.
This was fully planned.......collective bullying organized by fascists

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Mitt Romney and MTG weren’t trying to pick fights with speakers and follow them to restaurants, presumably to create more havoc.

As far as I’m concerned, the odious Mitt Romney can sit next to me on a plane, as long as he doesn’t try to talk to me.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Yale’s top administrators are apologists for the worst thinking and illogical decisions and terrible hires and “woke” student selections. What just happened at Yale is a function of their faculty and administration. Look to the administration and the faculty hires and the curriculum if you want to understand why Yale has gone down the tubes. Yes these law school students show what Yale is today. They fail ion their Marxist, censorious, bullying choice of behaviors to meet the criteria of getting law licenses in any U.S. state. They should not be allowed to practice law at either the state or federal level. THey should be barred from the bar.

[Guenevere]

‘You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel’
Introspective much?

[nathanbedford]

I'm asking you to consider nothing less than that which distinguishes you as a conservative from a leftist

A leftist is results driven, he opposes or supports a thing because it advances his power or prejudice.

Do you as a conservative operate the same way or do you have a higher order of principle? Do you consult the Constitution or perhaps some conservative principle or do you simply gratify an urge?

[Cowgirl of Justice]

And that is the difference between the two political parties.

They hate us based on our beliefs and political party.

I lost a 40 year friendship when I told a friend that Kamala was completely unqualified to be VP and most likely P when Joe steps down and was only where she was because she started her career with an extramarital affair. I have had people I respected unfriend me on FB when they saw I had Trump Rally watching parties while I just ignored their hatred for anything Conservative.

They hate us. We need to go ahead and start dividing assets and live separately.

And I hope the merde hits the fan at Yale. They are human trash. Not allowing speech that they disagree with has been going on for far too long. They are violent, obnoxious scum and need to be treated as such.