{"id":1672835,"date":"2022-10-04T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672835"},"modified":"2022-10-04T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T22:11:10","slug":"a-boycott-we-can-get-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-boycott-we-can-get-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boycott We Can Get Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-boycott-we-can-get-behind%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672835&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Three cheers for Judge James Ho and his fellow travelers, who are taking the fight to Yale <\/p>\n<p>   The view across Hewitt Quadrangle of Commons, Yale University \/ Facebook   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/washington-free-beacon-editors\/\" title=\"Posts by Washington Free Beacon Editors\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Washington Free Beacon Editors<\/a> \u2022 October 4, 2022 6:05 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Rejected. That word, perhaps above all others, strikes fear in the hearts of careerist, Ivy League overachievers and the administrators whose livelihoods depend on serving them by maintaining their perch atop the all-important U.S. News &#038; World Report rankings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is why Fifth Circuit Judge James C. Ho\u2019s announcement last week that he will no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School, ostensibly the nation\u2019s premier breeding ground for legal scholars and practitioners, is garnering so much attention, and why we expect our colleague Aaron Sibarium\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/citing-concern-for-free-speech-12-federal-judges-say-they-wont-take-clerks-from-yale-law-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> indicating that a dozen more federal judges are following suit to turn heads, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three cheers for them. Changing the market demand for a Yale Law School degree is one way to motivate the feckless, dishonest, and unprincipled administrators in New Haven and elsewhere to do their jobs\u2014that is, reasserting in clear terms that <a href=\"https:\/\/yalecollege.yale.edu\/get-know-yale-college\/office-dean\/reports\/report-committee-freedom-expression-yale\">free inquiry is the primary function of a university<\/a> and that it is to be protected at all costs, including, and perhaps especially, when free speech causes offense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It may not work and, if Yale continues on its current course, the boycott is telegraphing to anybody interested in a serious legal education that what\u2019s on offer in New Haven is far from it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pushback, some of which clearly comes from those troubled by the totalitarian atmosphere on the Yale campus that has been well documented in these pages, is well underway. Critics say this boycott will <a href=\"https:\/\/davidlat.substack.com\/p\/a-prominent-federal-judge-declares\">hurt innocent students<\/a> and that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/jonathan-turley-judge-hos-boycott-will-not-change-yale-law\/?utm_source=blog-landing&amp;utm_medium=desktop&amp;utm_campaign=continue-reading\">won\u2019t affect change<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Set aside the fact that this is a prospective boycott that won\u2019t affect current Yale students. Innocent students are being hurt now: Look no further than Yale law student Trent Colbert, who was put through a Kafkaesque interrogation by administrators last year after sending a lighthearted email to his classmates, or to the dozens of students who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rejected. That word, perhaps above all others, strikes fear in the hearts of careerist, Ivy League overachievers and the administrators whose livelihoods depend on serving them by maintaining their perch atop the all-important U.S. News &#038; World Report rankings.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nThe post A Boycott We Can Get Behind appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1894563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}