{"id":1673124,"date":"2022-10-05T03:02:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T07:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1673124"},"modified":"2022-10-05T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T07:04:09","slug":"federal-judges-stick-it-to-yale-law-if-youre-a-cancel-culture-cesspool-we-wont-hire-your-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judges-stick-it-to-yale-law-if-youre-a-cancel-culture-cesspool-we-wont-hire-your-grads\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judges Stick It To Yale Law: If You\u2019re A Cancel Culture Cesspool, We Won\u2019t Hire Your Grads"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Ffederal-judges-stick-it-to-yale-law-if-youre-a-cancel-culture-cesspool-we-wont-hire-your-grads%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=1673124&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>A federal judge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/09\/exclusive-federal-judge-vows-to-stop-hiring-law-clerks-from-yale-law-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vowed<\/a>\u00a0to push back the cancel culture and ideological intolerance on elite college campuses by not hiring Yale Law School students as law clerks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a conference in Kentucky, Judge James Chun-Yee Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/09\/exclusive-federal-judge-vows-to-stop-hiring-law-clerks-from-yale-law-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blasted<\/a>\u00a0colleges for not \u201cteaching students how to agree to disagree.\u201d Instead, \u201cThey\u2019re teaching students how to destroy.\u201d He named a few examples, and Yale stood out for some of the most disturbing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the earliest and ugliest anti-free-speech incidents took place at Yale in 2015, over an email about Halloween customs sent by the then-associate master of Yale University\u2019s Silliman College, Erika Christakis. Her well-intended email was in response to the school\u2019s Intercultural Affairs Council asking students to consider the cultural implications of their Halloween costumes. It sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/yale-university-students-protest-halloween-costume-email-video-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outrage<\/a> among some Yale students, and they demanded the school fire Erika and her husband, Nicholas Christakis, master of Silliman College. Although the university didn\u2019t fire them, it didn\u2019t offer a robust defense of their right to free speech either. The couple was left to fend off woke mobs on their own. A year later, they resigned from Silliman College duties and returned to academic research.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In another controversial incident, woke administrators, not students, were to blame. Last fall, several Yale Law School administrators\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/how-yale-law-school-pressured-a-law-student-to-apologize-for-a-constitution-day-trap-house-invitation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a>\u00a0pressured a conservative Native American student, Trent Colbert, to issue a public apology over an emailed party invitation containing the word \u201ctraphouse,\u201d which some black students found offensive. The administrators reportedly issued veiled threats by warning Colbert that the incident would negatively affect his future career if he refused to apologize. One administrator even sent Colbert a pre-written apology to get him \u201cstarted.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time as this \u201ctraphouse\u201d controversy, two Yale Law School students\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/yale-law-students-sue-administrators-for-violation-of-harassment-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> alleging that the law school\u2019s dean, Heather Gerken, Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove, and Diversity Director Yaseen Eldik \u201cworked together in an attempt to blackball two students of color from job opportunities as retaliation\u201d for the students\u2019 refusal to make damning statements about Amy Chua, a center-right Yale Law professor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In another example of the university\u2019s woke mobs taking over, more than 100 Yale Law School students interrupted a bipartisan panel discussion on civil liberty and free speech in March. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/hundreds-of-yale-law-students-disrupt-bipartisan-free-speech-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a>, these students caused \u201cso much chaos that police were eventually called to escort panelists out of the building.\u201d Yet Cosgrove, who was present at the event, did nothing to confront the students whose behavior violated Yale\u2019s free speech policies. This incident was so shocking that senior District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Laurence Silberman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2022\/03\/a-word-from-judge-silberman.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent a note<\/a>\u00a0to all Article III judges the day after the event, advising that \u201call federal judges \u2014 and all federal judges are presumably committed to free speech \u2014 should carefully consider whether any student so identified should be disqualified for potential clerkships.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Yale Is Worst \u2026 and It Sets the Tone\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Judge Ho said these incidents demonstrate that \u201cYale not only tolerates the cancellation of views \u2014 it actively practices it.\u201d Furthermore, Ho pointed out, \u201cWhen elite law schools like Yale teach their students that there are no consequences to their intolerance and illiberalism, the message sticks with them.\u201d Ho wants to teach Yale Law School students a different lesson: Every action has a consequence.<\/p>\n<p>In Ho\u2019s words, \u201cWe\u2019re not just citizens. We\u2019re also customers. Customers can boycott entities that practice cancel culture \u2026 I wonder how a law school would feel if my fellow federal judges and I stopped being its customers.\u201d Ho announced that he would stop hiring Yale Law School students as clerks and urged other judges to join him. He said he singled out Yale Law School because \u201cYale is worst when it comes to legal cancellation \u2026 and it sets the tone for other law schools and the legal profession at large.\u201d By publicly boycotting Yale Law School students, Ho hopes to \u201csend the message that other schools should not follow in Yale\u2019s footsteps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ho\u2019s announcement shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise, because he has always been outspoken against cancel culture and affirmative action. An immigrant from Taiwan, Ho has a long and distinguished legal career, including serving as a law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Nominated by then-President Donald Trump to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ho was confirmed by the Senate in January 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ho\u2019s 2017 testimony for\u00a0a House subcommittee hearing on the importance of a diverse federal judiciary made headlines for his strong opposition to affirmative action. \u201cThe last thing we should do is divide people by race,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026We don\u2019t achieve equality of opportunity by denying it to anyone \u2014 we achieve it by securing it for everyone. \u2026 It would be profoundly offensive \u2014 and un-American \u2014 to tell the world that you\u2019re restricting a judgeship to members of only one race.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>One Way to Fight the Culture War<\/h2>\n<p>In February this year, speaking at Georgetown University, Ho defended Ilya Shapiro, who faced backlash for his tweet criticizing President Joe Biden for limiting his Supreme Court justice nominee pool by race and sex. Ho\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/notable-quotable-judge-ho-georgetown-racism-ilya-shapiro-cancel-supreme-court-black-woman-justice-11645471956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>: \u201cI stand with Ilya on the paramount importance of color-blindness. And that same principle should apply whether we\u2019re talking about getting into college, getting your first job, or receiving an appointment to the highest court in the land. \u2026 [T]he first step in fighting racial discrimination is to stop practicing it. \u2026 [I]f Ilya Shapiro is deserving of cancellation, then you should go ahead and cancel me too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some conservatives think Ho\u2019s boycotting of Yale Law School students for future clerkships has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/judge-hos-misguided-answer-to-illiberalism-at-yale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gone too far<\/a>, amounting to \u201cusing the blameless as pawns in an effort to change the behavior of an institution to which they are connected.\u201d But Ho\u2019s critics on the right have offered no effective alternative to fight the cultural war in America.<\/p>\n<p>For years, many conservatives had hoped that these students and their like-minded peers from other campuses would somehow moderate their behavior when they graduate and start living in the \u201creal world.\u201d But this hope has proved to be wishful thinking. These young people deploy similar tactics in the real world as they did in college to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/05\/13\/apple-reportedly-fires-antonio-garcia-martinez-after-employee-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">silence views they don\u2019t like or disagree<\/a>\u00a0with. Besides ruining individuals\u2019 professional and personal lives, such ideology-driven activism has destroyed the trust in and reputation of some of the most important institutions in this nation. For instance, will the Supreme Court ever regain public trust after a draft opinion over abortion was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/after-supreme-court-abortion-opinion-leak-parties-weigh-next-steps-11651656601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaked in May<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>By boycotting Yale Law School students from clerkships, Ho warned woke students and administrators at Yale and other universities that their behavior on campus will have real-world consequences. Shortly after Ho\u2019s announcement, about 12 federal judges <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=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> said they wouldn\u2019t hire future Yale Law School students as clerks either. It remains to be seen whether these judges\u2019 approach will bring positive culture change to colleges. Should the boycott movement succeed, these judges may have shown conservatives how to fight the cultural war effectively.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Helen Raleigh, CFA, is an American entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. She&#8217;s a senior contributor at The Federalist. Her writings appear in other national media, including The Wall Street Journal and Fox News.  Helen is the author of several books, including &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Confucius-Never-Said-Helen-Raleigh\/dp\/1499185278\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Helen+Raleigh+Confucius+Never+Said&amp;qid=1606079469&amp;sr=8-1\">Confucius Never Said<\/a>&#8221; and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Backlash-How-Chinas-Aggression-Backfired\/dp\/1736008501\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1606006113&amp;sr=8-1\">Backlash: How Communist China&#8217;s Aggression Has Backfired<\/a>.&#8221; Follow her on Parler and Twitter: @HRaleighspeaks.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge\u00a0vowed\u00a0to push back the cancel culture and ideological intolerance on elite college campuses by not hiring Yale Law School students as law clerks.\u00a0 Speaking at a conference in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673124","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\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}