I am not holding my breath; after all, the elites will protect their own, but the fact that there is even discussion that law schools and students who shut down free speech could face any kind of repercussions is a breath of fresh air.
Elite law schools that give their student activists carte blanche to disrupt authorized campus events are under scrutiny from legal scholars and even judges.
And yet:
Yale Law School told Just the News that it wouldn’t punish students who continually disrupted a First Amendment event with the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom and liberal American Humanist Association earlier this month, just have a “serious conversation” with them.
We can hope:
Student disruptors could face career damage if identified. In email exchanges obtained by Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern, federal judges discussed how to respond to the incident at Yale Law, which has produced nine Supreme Court justices.
Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, whom The Wall Street Journal dubbed possibly the most influential non-SCOTUS jurist, asked peers to “carefully consider” whether such students “should be disqualified for potential clerkships.”
Will the elitists ever punish their progeny for violating the civil rights of others? Doubt it. The rules don’t apply in the thin air in which they abide. But any law student who represses free speech should never be allowed in the near vicinity any judge’s chair, local or supreme.
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