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A Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge says he will no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School, because the Ivy League participates in – and promotes – cancel culture and the stifling of free speech. From National Review:
Judge James C. Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit announced Thursday that he would no longer be hiring law clerks from Yale Law School and urged other judges to follow suit. In a keynote address to the Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society, titled “Agreeing to Disagree — Restoring America by Resisting Cancel Culture,” Ho cited a number of high-profile examples of speakers being shouted down or otherwise censored at law schools across the country but singled out Yale Law as “one particular law school where cancellations and disruptions seem to occur with special frequency.”
“Yale not only tolerates the cancellation of views — it actively practices it,” Ho said, according to prepared remarks exclusively obtained by National Review. “Starting today, I will no longer hire law clerks from Yale Law School. And I hope that other judges will join me as well.”
But constitutional law scholar, Jonathan Turley, doesn’t think the effort will work. He says the faculty has already shown a desire to harm their students’ education by engaging in the cancel culture tactics.
Institutional interest has not motivated faculties to reverse this trend. Even if judges expressly or privately (which is more likely) follow Ho’s boycott, it would not likely deter these professors who garner personal benefits from limiting dissent or allowing others to cancel opposing speakers.
The only solution is the alumni. Graduates must be willing to withhold contributions from these schools. Yale is at the virtual bottom of free speech rankings with other schools like Georgetown, Penn, and Columbia. That disgraceful distinction has not produced even a scintilla of concern at the school because faculty are insulated from any backlash. Indeed, they benefit on some levels from the viewpoint intolerance or limitations. It is only money that might motivate administrators to reconsider this trend as alumni refuse to subsidize orthodoxy.
Plus, one of the top comms officials from the United Nations appeared at a World Economic Forum panel discussion on mis- and dis-information, where she proclaimed that the UN “owns the science” on climate change.
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