[ May 19, 2024 ]
It should be ALL federal judges.
13 Federal Judges Say They Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Columbia University, Citing ‘Virulent Spread of Antisemitism’ and ‘Explosion of Student Disruptions’
By Aaron Sibarium, WFD, May 7, 2024:
Story continues below advertisementThirteen 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 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.”
“Freedom of speech protects protest, not trespass, and certainly not acts or threats of violence or terrorism,” the judges wrote. “It has become clear that Columbia applies double standards when it comes to free speech and student misconduct.”
The letter’s signatories include Alan Albright, a district judge who hears a fourth of the nation’s patent cases; Stephen Vaden, a former general counsel at the Department of Agriculture who now sits on the United States Court of International Trade; and Matthew Kacsmaryk, the district judge who suspended approval of the abortion drug mifepristone in a controversial ruling last year. Others are well-known district judges appointed by former president Donald Trump.
While 12 judges joined the Yale boycott anonymously, Monday’s letter marks the first time that more than two judges have said on the record that they will not hire graduates from an elite university.
It also marks an about-face for Solomson—one of the letter’s lead signatories—who previously criticized the boycotts of Yale and Stanford as a form of collective punishment. His decision to spearhead the Columbia boycott underscores just how much good will the school has lost over the encampment, which effectively put the campus on lockdown.
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7 Comments
12 days ago
And while you’re at it, see to it that they are permanently unable to vote. If their “minds” are that poisoned, they’re done.
D
12 days ago
Thank you to these 13 and hopefully more will follow suit.
12 days ago
Rev 3:9 has useful idiots on both sides….judges being 100% prejudiced is not good
12 days ago
Good to see we still have some federal judges with come common sense, eh?
11 days ago
Yeah? And most, if not all of those federal judges should probably be hanged for treason.
11 days ago
Finally, some reaction.
11 days ago
YEAH for some judges with a backbone! THIS ought to get the “demonstrators”, AKA rioters & anti-Semitic attackers, attention. Keep up the good work! MAY many more follow in your footsteps.
