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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/05/federal-judge-sticks-it-to-yale-law-   
   if-youre-a-cancel-culture-cesspool-i-wont-hire-your-grads/   
      
   By boycotting Yale Law School students from clerkships, Judge James Chun-   
   Yee Ho warned woke students that their behavior has consequences.   
      
   Afederal judge vowed to push back the cancel culture and ideological   
   intolerance on elite college campuses by not hiring Yale Law School   
   students as law clerks.   
      
   Speaking at a conference in Kentucky, Judge James Chun-Yee Ho of the U.S.   
   Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blasted colleges for not “teaching   
   students how to agree to disagree.” Instead, “They’re teaching students   
   how to destroy.” He named a few examples, and Yale stood out for some of   
   the most disturbing.   
      
   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’s Silliman College, Erika Christakis.   
   Her well-intended email was in response to the school’s Intercultural   
   Affairs Council asking students to consider the cultural implications of   
   their Halloween costumes. It sparked outrage among some Yale students, and   
   they demanded the school fire Erika and her husband, Nicholas Christakis,   
   master of Silliman College. Although the university didn’t fire them, it   
   didn’t 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.   
      
   In another controversial incident, woke administrators, not students, were   
   to blame. Last fall, several Yale Law School administrators reportedly   
   pressured a conservative Native American student, Trent Colbert, to issue   
   a public apology over an emailed party invitation containing the word   
   “traphouse,” 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   
   “started.”   
      
   Around the same time as this “traphouse” controversy, two Yale Law School   
   students filed a lawsuit alleging that the law school’s dean, Heather   
   Gerken, Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove, and Diversity Director Yaseen Eldik   
   “worked together in an attempt to blackball two students of color from job   
   opportunities as retaliation” for the students’ refusal to make damning   
   statements about Amy Chua, a center-right Yale Law professor.   
      
   In another example of the university’s 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 The Washington Free   
   Beacon, these students caused “so much chaos that police were eventually   
   called to escort panelists out of the building.” Yet Cosgrove, who was   
   present at the event, did nothing to confront the students whose behavior   
   violated Yale’s free speech policies. This incident was so shocking that   
   senior District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Laurence   
   Silberman sent a note to all Article III judges the day after the event,   
   advising that “all federal judges — and all federal judges are presumably   
   committed to free speech — should carefully consider whether any student   
   so identified should be disqualified for potential clerkships.”   
      
   ‘Yale Is Worst … and It Sets the Tone’   
   Judge Ho said these incidents demonstrate that “Yale not only tolerates   
   the cancellation of views — it actively practices it.” Furthermore, Ho   
   pointed out, “When elite law schools like Yale teach their students that   
   there are no consequences to their intolerance and illiberalism, the   
   message sticks with them.” Ho wants to teach Yale Law School students a   
   different lesson: Every action has a consequence.   
      
   In Ho’s words, “We’re not just citizens. We’re also customers. Customers   
   can boycott entities that practice cancel culture … I wonder how a law   
   school would feel if my fellow federal judges and I stopped being its   
   customers.” 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 “Yale is worst when it comes to legal   
   cancellation … and it sets the tone for other law schools and the legal   
   profession at large.” By publicly boycotting Yale Law School students, Ho   
   hopes to “send the message that other schools should not follow in Yale’s   
   footsteps.”   
      
   Ho’s announcement shouldn’t 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.   
      
   Ho’s 2017 testimony for a House subcommittee hearing on the importance of   
   a diverse federal judiciary made headlines for his strong opposition to   
   affirmative action. “The last thing we should do is divide people by   
   race,” he said. “…We don’t achieve equality of opportunity by denying it   
   to anyone — we achieve it by securing it for everyone. … It would be   
   profoundly offensive — and un-American — to tell the world that you’re   
   restricting a judgeship to members of only one race.”   
      
   One Way to Fight the Culture War   
   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   
   said: “I stand with Ilya on the paramount importance of color-blindness.   
   And that same principle should apply whether we’re talking about getting   
   into college, getting your first job, or receiving an appointment to the   
   highest court in the land. … [T]he first step in fighting racial   
   discrimination is to stop practicing it. … [I]f Ilya Shapiro is deserving   
   of cancellation, then you should go ahead and cancel me too.”   
      
   Some conservatives think Ho’s boycotting of Yale Law School students for   
   future clerkships has gone too far, amounting to “using the blameless as   
   pawns in an effort to change the behavior of an institution to which they   
   are connected.” But Ho’s critics on the right have offered no effective   
   alternative to fight the cultural war in America.   
      
   For years, many conservatives had hoped that these students and their   
   like-minded peers from other campuses would somehow moderate their   
      
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