Once again, the privileged elites at one of America’s premier law schools have had a public meltdown. The latest target: widely respected federal judge Kyle Duncan, appointed by President Donald Trump to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2018.
I am a Federalist Society chapter president at a reputable non-Ivy law school that actually equipsto be lawyers rather than outraged academics. But even schools with practical ambitions such as mine feel the cultural impact of these events at Stanford, Yale, and Harvard. When administrators fail to hold students accountable for bad-faith attacks on the free exchange of ideas at the highest level of our educational institutions, it threatens the principles of free speech everywhere.
Duncan attempted to give a talk at Stanford Law School this month titled “Covid, Guns, and Twitter” at the invitation of the Federalist Society, when he was shouted down by dozens of student protesters. Outside the lecture hall, posters displayed student-members of the Federalist Society with the slogan, “Meet the Federalist Society's 2022-2023 Board. You Should Be Ashamed.”
To his credit, Duncan continued to present while, for the better part of an hour, students yelled profanities, calling him a “scumbag” and “liar.
She repeatedly asked, “Is the juice worth the squeeze?” What does this mean, you may wonder? Steinbach clarified that she wanted Duncan to explain whether his talk is worth the emotional turmoil it seems to cause some Stanford law students. If the “juice” is exposing law students to opinions with which they disagree, then it is well worth the squeeze.
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