Judge says he will REFUSE to take clerks from Yale because ‘intolerant’ school fuels cancel culture
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A federal appeals court judge appointed by former President Donald Trump has said he will no longer hire clerks from Yale Law School, which he says is plagued by “cancellation culture” and students disrupting conservative speakers.
“Yale presents itself as the best, most elite legal education institution,” US Circuit Judge James Ho said in comments given Thursday to the Federalist Society. “Still, it’s worst when it comes to legal termination.”
Ho said Yale “sets the tone for other law schools and for the legal profession in general,” but that it has set a poor example in recent years because of its “closed and intolerant environment.”
The judge then added, Yale, “not only tolerates the cancellation of opinions, but actively exercises it.”
“I don’t want anything to do with it,” Ho decided.
He has urged his fellow judges to also boycott the Ivy League institution, which has been the scene of several controversies over a so-called “awakened” culture among students and educators, sparking several fires this year alone. .
US circuit judge James Ho gave a speech at a Federalist Society conference in Kentucky, where he said Yale “doesn’t just tolerate the cancellation of opinions — it actively exercises it.”
One of the events he cited was one in March when Kristen Waggoner, now the president of conservative religious rights group Alliance Defending Freedom, was disrupted by students supporting the LGBTQ community at a lecture, attended by police.
Among the events he cited was one in March when Kristen Waggoner, now the chairman of conservative religious rights group Alliance Defending Freedom, was disrupted by students supporting the LGBTQ community during a speech attended by police.
Wagoner had previously defended a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay marriage in a Supreme Court case.
She issued a statement following the judge’s comments, saying, “Yale still hasn’t condemned the behavior of its law students last semester, so no one should be surprised if a federal judge notices.”
The havoc caused by the nearly 120 protesters seemed clearly against the university’s free speech policy and when reminded by moderator Kate Stith, she was greeted with chants and raised middle fingers, to which she replied, “Grow up.”
The students hit back, arguing that their disruption was the implementation of “free speech” and continued to yell at the panelists.
Police were forced to escort guest speakers at Yale Law School’s free speech debate after more than 100 students harassed the conservative panelist by yelling obscenities, including one person shouting, “I’ll fight you literally, b* **h.’
Heather Gerken, Dean Yale Law School, insisted the students had not broken college rules.
Judge Ho himself has previously railed against the wake culture at Yale after defending Ilya Shapiro after Georgetown University law students insisted he be kicked out of a new faculty position.
Shapiro caused outrage when he wrote tweets questioning President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate a black woman to the US Supreme Court.
Ho has urged his fellow judges to also boycott the Ivy League institution, which has spawned several Supreme Court justices
The judge has previously spoken out against the vigilant culture at Yale after defending Ilya Shapiro after Georgetown University law school students urged him to be kicked out of a new faculty position.
Shapiro, a prominent conservative lawyer, was suspended but later cleared to become the executive director of the Center for the Constitution at Georgetown Law.
However, he eventually stopped saying that the way the school handled things made working there “unsustainable.”
Ho said, “At Yale, cancellations and interruptions seem to occur with a special frequency.”
Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman had called on judges in March to think twice about bringing in Yale students who disrupted Waggoner’s event
Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, an appointee of former Republican President Ronald Reagan, in March urged judges to think twice about engaging Yale students disrupted Wagoner’s event.
Ho said that event was just one example. US Circuit Judge William Pryor of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta was also “disturbed by loud angry law students in class” at Yale a few years ago.
That incident, Ho said, was because Pryor, as Republican Attorney General of Alabama, supported Texas’ defense of the anti-sodomy law that was repealed in 2003 in the Supreme Court’s landmark Lawrence v. Texas case.
Ho is an outspoken opponent of abortion rights and a staunch advocate for gun rights, according to NPR, leading the public broadcaster to call him potentially “President Trump’s most lasting legacy.”