Yale Law Students for Censorship – WSJ

The latest events at Yale Law School in which students attempted to shout down speakers participating in a panel discussion on free speech prompts me to suggest that students who are identified as those willing to disrupt any such panel discussion should be noted. All federal judges and all federal judges are presumably committed to free speech should carefully consider whether any student so identified should be disqualified for potential clerkships.

That should get some attention at Yale and other law schools. The woke young men and women might not care about the First Amendment, but they care about their careers. Judicial clerkships are plum post-graduate positions that open a path to jobs at prominent law firms, in state and federal government, and later to powerful judgeships. Appellate-court clerkships in particular are highly prized and are often a stepping stone to clerk for a Supreme Court Justice.

Some readers may think these students should be forgiven the excesses of youth. But these are adults, not college sophomores. They are law students who will soon be responsible for protecting the rule of law. The right to free speech is a bedrock principle of the U.S. Constitution. If these students are so blinkered by ideology that they can t tolerate a debate over civil liberties on campus, the future of the American legal system is in jeopardy.

Individual judges choose their clerks, and no doubt some will figure they can educate these progressive protesters. But Judge Silberman s letter should, if nothing else, warn these students that there may be consequences for becoming campus censors.

via www.wsj.com

What a great idea!