NRO’s Nate Hochman obtained a copy of Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho’s keynote address to the Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society and reports on it in “Federal Judge Vows to Stop Hiring Law Clerks from Yale Law School.” Judge Ho’s address — “Agreeing to Disagree — Restoring America by Resisting Cancel Culture” — 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.”
We covered the events at Yale Law School in some detail on Power Line. Yale’s Professor Kate Stith — a college classmate whom I greatly admire — has fought the culture, but the culture won. Judge Ho now vows to impose consequences.
NEW: The Fifth Circuit’s James Ho says he’s no longer hiring clerks from Yale Law—and urges other judges to join him.
“If they want the closed and intolerant environment that Yale embraces today, that’s their call,” Ho said. “I want nothing to do with it.”https://t.co/q4OLS4TzJc
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) September 29, 2022
“Starting today, I will no longer hire law clerks from Yale Law School,” Ho said. “And I hope that other judges will join me as well.”
“I certainly reserve the right to add other schools in the future,” he added. “But my sincere hope is that I won’t have to.”
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) September 29, 2022
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