Columbia Law Students Are Upset – WSJ

Student organizations, including the Black Law Students Association of Columbia and the reproductive rights group If/When/How, have written letters demanding that the school remove the social-media post. The American Constitution Society chapter noted that at a time when the rights of vulnerable people are under attack, CLS used their platform to uplift a radical jurist who has consistently voted to take away those rights.

Columbia Law School s policy on free speech says that all members of our community may engage in our cherished traditions of freedom of expression and open debate. The law school did not respond to a request for comment. Last time we checked, the school had not removed the post.

In a bizarre attempt at retaliation, the Black Law Students Association said it will no longer support Columbia Law s recruitment program for incoming black students, explaining that the Columbia Law School Administration may be comfortable wallowing in apoliticism and neutrality, but we are not.

Progressive campaigns and the social pressure to support student groups based on identity silences students who fear they will be called racist or anti-women if they dissent from the orthodoxy. One Columbia law student told us that speaking out on the Kavanaugh flap is impossible. I m a Democrat and a liberal person and so are my friends but none of us can say anything, said the student, who asked not to be identified. If I feel this way, I can t imagine how conservative students feel.

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The faculties of top law schools and increasingly those of us further down the food chain have brought this mess on ourselves. And I fear we haven’t seen the worst of it either.