Crybullies at Stanford Law School Threaten Free Speech
Ed Whelan National Review Online
Stanford Law School students last week shouted down Fifth Circuit judge Stuart Kyle Duncan at a Federalist Society event. Judge Duncan was scheduled to speak on the topic of “The Fifth Circuit in Conversation with the Supreme Court: Covid, Guns, and Twitter.” The students’ disruption made it impossible for him to be heard.
The protesting students had no objection, so far as I’m aware, to the topic that Judge Duncan would be addressing. Instead, according to an email that Tirien Steinbach, Stanford’s associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), sent out in advance of the event, they charged that he “repeatedly and proudly threatened healthcare and basic rights for marginalized communities, including LGBTQ+ people, Native Americans, immigrants, prisoners, Black voters, and women.” Steinbach herself quoted the charge with evident approval.
Ed has continued reporting on Stanford's response to the classroom disruption: On Saturday, he broke the news that university president Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Stanford Law School dean Jenny Martinez issued a joint letter of apology to Judge Duncan. And yesterday, he wrote about what steps Stanford might take to punish the protestors.
Brad Littlejohn also weighed in on the incident in WORLD Opinions: “A cacophony of everyone yelling everything everywhere all at once may mean that everyone is enjoying their freedom to speak, but it also means that no one is. Speech—like everything else in this finite world—can only exist within boundaries.”
Last week, an amicus brief was filed on behalf of EPPC Scholar Rachel N. Morrison in Faith Bible Chapel International v. Tucker, urging the Supreme Court to hear a case involving First Amendment protections for religious organizations.
“The idea that morality should not be legislated is pure fiction. As much as we may want to tell ourselves that we do not legislate morality, all governments do,” writes Andrew T. Walker for WORLD Opinions.
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