(New York Post) Two federal judges appointed by former President Donald Trump will no longer hire clerks from Stanford Law School after students there protested the visit of another conservative judge last month.
The Saturday night announcement from circuit court judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch came after the duo and 12 other judges said in October they would not hire clerks from Yale Law School due to a pervasive “cancel culture” at the Ivy League school.
Ho, who serves on a federal appeals court in New Orleans, made the announcement in a speech to the Texas Review of Law and Politics, where he was introduced by Branch, an Atlanta judge, according to The Washington Free Beacon.
The announcement came after Stanford’s associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion led a protest of Judge S. Kyle Duncan at the school’s chapter of the Federalist Society, and accused him and his anti-gay rights legal record of causing “harm” to students.
The student protesters accused and his anti-gay rights legal record of causing “harm” to students.Ed Andrieski/AP Photo
Some students reportedly called him “scum” and said they hoped his “daughters get raped.”Getty
Some of the student protestors who ambushed Duncan’s speech reportedly called him “scum” and said they hoped his “daughters get raped.”
Stanford did not discipline the demonstrators even though they had violated the university’s policy against disrupting and heckling speakers.
Tirien Steinbach, the dean who escalated the protest, had been placed on leave in the wake of the incident, according to the paper.
“We will not hire any student who chooses to attend Stanford Law School in the future,” Ho reportedly said.
“Rules aren’t rules without consequences,” he reportedly continued. “And students who practice intolerance don’t belong in the legal profession.”
As is the case with the Yale boycott, Ho and Branch’s Stanford clerkship moratorium would not apply to current students, only ones that chose to enroll in the Palo Alto, Calif. area school in the wake of Ho’s blacklist, he said.
