{"id":2238641,"date":"2024-05-06T18:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T22:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-palestinian-protests-drive-federal-judge-boycotts-against-universities\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T18:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T22:33:31","slug":"pro-palestinian-protests-drive-federal-judge-boycotts-against-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-palestinian-protests-drive-federal-judge-boycotts-against-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Support of Palestine Lead to Federal Judge Boycotts at Universities"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fpro-palestinian-protests-drive-federal-judge-boycotts-against-universities%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=2238641&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>Thirteen federal judges have decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judges-are-right-to-be-mad-at-yale-law-but-lefty-students-arent-the-only-ones-to-blame\/\" title=\"Judges Are Right To Be Mad At Yale Law, But Lefty Students Aren\u2019t The Only Ones To Blame\">stop hiring law clerks<\/a> from Columbia University due to concerns over a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus and allegations of rising \u2062anti-Semitism. The boycott, led by\u2063 Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, follows\u2063 similar\u2062 actions at \u200cother universities. The judges&#8217;\u2063 decision is influenced by recent events and a perceived lack of response to these issues at Columbia University.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Thirteen federal judges announced Monday they would cease hiring law clerks from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/columbia-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Columbia University<\/a> after school administrators permitted a pro-Palestinian encampment on its lawn and allowed the \u201cvirulent spread of antisemitism\u201d on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering recent events, and absent extraordinary change, we will not hire anyone who joins the Columbia University community \u2014 whether as undergraduates or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/13-federal-judges-we-wont-hire-columbia-u-students-unless-serious-consequences-for-protesters-significant-changes-in-faculty\/\" title=\"13 Federal Judges Refuse to Recruit Columbia University Students Without Action on Protesters and Faculty\">law students \u2014 beginning<\/a> with the entering class of 2024,\u201d the judges said, according to the joint letter obtained by the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Pro-Palestinian student activists face off with New York Police Department officers during a raid on Columbia University\u2019s campus at the request of Columbia University President Minouche Shafik on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024, in New York. (Seyma Bayram via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The boycott is led by U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, who both led similar efforts to boycott the hiring of clerks from Yale Law School in 2022 and Stanford Law School in 2023 over free speech concerns, and Matthew H. Solomson, a judge on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas, Columbia University has become ground zero for the explosion of student disruptions, anti-semitism, and hatred for diverse viewpoints on campuses across the Nation,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n<p>Although 12 judges joined the Yale boycott anonymously, Monday\u2019s letter is the first time more than two judges have come out publicly in support of a boycott of a university. With similar encampments allowed to continue for weeks across the country, it is unclear whether the group of judges could extend their boycott to similarly situated universities.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Two-thirds of the signatories are based in Texas, including U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, who gained national attention last year by suspending approval of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/egregious-abuse-11-gop-senators-demand-google-stop-censoring-ads-for-abortion-pill-reversal-hotline\/\" title=\"\u2018Egregious Abuse\u2019: 11 GOP Senators Demand Google Stop Censoring Ads For Abortion Pill Reversal Hotline\">abortion pill mifepristone<\/a> in a case now before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The letter announcing the boycott of clerks from Columbia comes one week after students occupied the university\u2019s Hamilton Hall, which resulted in administrators calling on the New York Police Department to break up the protest. It also comes days after the <em>Columbia Law Review\u2019s<\/em> Administrative Board student editors released a statement asking for widespread exam cancellation for law students \u201cout of concerns for equity and academic integrity\u201d due to \u201cthis horrific time for our campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ho and Branch\u2019s previous Yale Law School boycott was due to a string of incidents in which speakers who were invited to the school\u2019s campus were shouted down in student demonstrations. Their boycott was later extended to Stanford after their 5th Circuit colleague, Judge Kyle Duncan, was kept from giving a speech at the school with the aid of the law school\u2019s diversity dean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom of speech protects protest, not trespass, and certainly not acts or threats of violence or terrorism,\u201d the judges wrote, showing a distinction between the Columbia boycott and their efforts to spur free speech with their Yale and Stanford boycotts. \u201cIt has become clear that Columbia applies double standards when it comes to free speech and student misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Solomson\u2019s signature of the letter also marks a change for the federal claims judge, who previously called the boycotts of Yale and Stanford a form of collective punishment.<\/p>\n<p>The judges said there should be \u201cserious consequences\u201d for students and faculty who have violated the university\u2019s rules surrounding the use of \u201cfacilities and other public spaces and threats against fellow members of the university community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent years, citizens have been told that unlawfully trespassing on and occupying public spaces is a sufficient basis to warrant incarceration. So that same conduct should surely be sufficient to warrant lesser measures such as expulsion or termination,\u201d the judges added.<\/p>\n<p>The letter also claims that there is a double standard on college campuses, arguing that if Christians on campus staged an encampment protest \u201cbecause they view abortion as a tragic genocide, we have no doubt that the university\u2019s response would have been profoundly different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the letter marks the most federal judges to sign on to a boycott letter publicly, the 13 judges represent a small percentage of the nation\u2019s nearly 900 federal judges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full letter here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a title=\"View Letter on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/729953892\/Letter#from_embed\">Letter<\/a> by <a title=\"View Kaelan Deese's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/624431598\/Kaelan-Deese#from_embed\">Kaelan Deese<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen federal judges declared they would stop hiring law clerks from Columbia University. This decision followed the university&#8217;s allowance of a pro-Palestinian encampment on its premises and the perceived rise of anti-Semitism. The judges cited concerns over recent incidents and stated they would not recruit individuals associated with Columbia University unless significant changes occur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3123,"featured_media":2238642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24122185766367.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24122185766367.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238641","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\/3123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}