A conservative federal judge who has said she won't hire law clerks from Yale Law School to protest "cancel culture" on its campus on Tuesday told students at its rival Harvard that law schools need to "step up" and do more to encourage free speech on campus.
In Yale's case, she said the "straw that broke the camel's back for me" was an event in March at which students disrupted a campus discussion with a conservative lawyer, Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom.
She said that was why when U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho, a fellow Trump appointee on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in September called for judges to boycott hiring students from Yale in protest, she followed suit in hopes of promoting change.
Branch argued law schools like Harvard and Yale should be doing more to enforce "robust speech codes" that make disrupting speeches on campus an offense and warned that student protesters who threaten speakers risk criminal prosecution.
linkCancel culture is when someone protests a conservative, but when I blackball students from schools who I think are too woke, that's free speech.
These people are morons.
Also, lol:
"The easiest course of action will be to cave into the mob," Branch said. "But I assure you, you lose a little bit of your soul when you do that. Stand up, hold firm. I assure you that no one ever respects anyone who caves."
Both Ho and Branch have suggested they could call off their planned boycott. Ho at an event at Yale University with Branch in November said the school appeared to recognize a "course correction" was needed.
"Don't cave to the mob. Cave to us!"
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