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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 10/8/22 4:33 AM, zinn wrote:   
   > A dozen federal judges say they are no longer hiring clerks from Yale Law   
   > School, citing a slew of scandals that they say have undermined free   
   > speech and intellectual diversity.   
   >   
   > In addition to Fifth Circuit judge James Ho, who announced on Thursday   
   > that he would no longer hire law clerks from the nation’s top-ranked law   
   > school, 12 federal judges—both circuit and district court jurists—told   
   the   
   > Washington Free Beacon they are joining the boycott.   
   >   
   > "Students should be mindful that they will face diminished opportunities   
   > if they go to Yale," said a prominent circuit court judge, whose clerks   
   > have gone on to nab Supreme Court clerkships. "I have no confidence that   
   > they’re being taught anything."   
   >   
   > With one exception, the judges made clear this is a policy they are   
   > imposing on future—not current—Yale Law School students.   
   >   
   > A spokeswoman for the law school did not respond to a request for comment.   
   >   
   > If the boycott catches on among other right-leaning judges, it could deal   
   > a serious blow to Yale Law School, which has maintained the top spot in   
   > the U.S. News and World Report rankings since the publication began   
   > ranking law schools in the 1980s. Clerkships, particularly on the federal   
   > bench, are coveted jobs in the legal profession, and many students choose   
   > Yale over other elite law schools because its graduates have historically   
   > had the best shot of clerking for prominent judges. A boycott could change   
   > that calculus, forcing Yale administrators to rein in activist students   
   > and colleagues if they want to keep attracting the best and brightest—and   
   > if they want to maintain even a fig leaf of ideological diversity.   
   >   
   > The judges joining the boycott, all of whom requested anonymity in order   
   > to speak freely, cited a series of incidents where they say free speech   
   > has come under attack at Yale Law, starting with a September 2021   
   > controversy in which administrators pressured second year law student   
   > Trent Colbert to apologize for an email in which he referred to his   
   > apartment as a "trap house." The law school’s diversity director Yaseen   
   > Eldik, also described Colbert’s membership in the conservative Federalist   
   > Society as "triggering," according to leaked audio obtained by the Free   
   > Beacon.   
   >   
   > Then in March, over a hundred Yale Law students disrupted a bipartisan   
   > panel on civil liberties, causing so much chaos that police were called to   
   > escort speakers to safety. Though the disruption was an apparent violation   
   > of Yale’s free speech policies, Yale Law School dean Heather Gerken ruled   
   > out disciplinary action for the protesters. She even denied that the   
   > students had transgressed any formal policy, a move that sparked blowback   
   > from her colleague, Kate Stith, who warned that Gerken was setting a   
   > "terrible precedent."   
   >   
   > Another circuit court judge—a top "feeder" for Supreme Court   
   > clerkships—said he was "torn" on whether to participate in the boycott,   
   > but that the case for it had "gotten stronger" over the past year. "I’ve   
   > hired a bunch of great Yale Law clerks," the judge said. But "at some   
   > point, the institution becomes so worthless and degenerate that you wonder   
   > what conservative would want to be a part of it."   
   >   
   > The law school has done little to address concerns about the atmosphere on   
   > campus. Gerken was reappointed as dean in January and, though one of the   
   > administrators involved in the "trap house" scandal, associate dean Ellen   
   > Cosgrove, retired at the end of the academic year, Eldik remains in his   
   > perch.   
   >   
   > While the official boycott marks a deepening of the ideological warfare   
   > between Yale Law and its critics, concerns about the school’s atmosphere   
   > have been percolating in the judiciary for years. Some judges already shy   
   > away from hiring from Yale School, a circuit court judge said, due to what   
   > they see as an echo chamber that retards "intellectual growth."   
   >   
   > Several judges noted that Yale is the only elite law school that does not   
   > employ a single prominent conservative scholar, which they argued had made   
   > it more susceptible to groupthink. "It is hard for me to see how one can   
   > get a rigorous, well-rounded education in that environment," one district   
   > judge said. "And that is a concern when it comes to hiring law clerks."   
   >   
   > The law school’s ideological monoculture also poses a problem for vetting   
   > clerkship applicants, some judges said, because there are simply no   
   > professors whom they trust to recommend conservative clerks.   
   >   
   > The feeder judge told the Free Beacon that he had long relied on Amy Chua,   
   > a left-leaning but heterodox Yale Law professor, for recommendations, but   
   > that the law school has made it a "speech and thought crime" for students   
   > to associate with her.   
   >   
   > Gerken stripped Chua of some of her teaching privileges in the spring of   
   > 2021 after student complaints that she had hosted dinner parties in   
   > violation of the school’s COVID restrictions. Law school administrators   
   > then pressured two law students to file a formal complaint against her,   
   > according to a lawsuit filed by two students against the Ivy League   
   > school, which alleges that Cosgrove and Eldik retaliated against them when   
   > they refused.   
   >   
   > With or without a boycott, Chua’s sidelining "will make it harder for me"   
   > to hire Yale Law clerks, the feeder judge said. "I don’t know how many   
   > I’ll keep hiring."   
   >   
   > https://freebeacon.com/campus/citing-concern-for-free-speech-12-federal-   
   > judges-say-they-wont-take-clerks-from-yale-law-school/   
   >   
      
      
   You can bet they also don't go to Affirmative Action Doctors for Brain   
   surgery or Affirmative Action hired graduates to be their own lawyers   
   when they get charged with a FAKE ME-TOO sexual accusation.   
      
   I said a while back that those colleges are making their degrees as   
   worthless as toilet paper and I'd use a degree from most of the   
   Affirmative Action and Woke Colleges as a mark against the applicant   
   rather than a positive on the Resume`, they'd end-up needing to prove to   
      
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