The columbia catastrophe. So it starts.
From Aaron Sibarium’s article for Washington Free Beacon, we have this:
Thirteen federal judges said Monday that they would no longer hire law clerks from Columbia College or Columbia Law School after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building. The judges cited the “explosion of student disruptions” and the “virulent spread of antisemitism” at Columbia, which has now canceled its main graduation ceremony because of the unrest.
Led by appellate judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, who spearheaded a clerkship boycott of Yale Law School in 2022 and Stanford Law School in 2023, as well as by Matthew Solomson on the U.S Court of Federal Claims, the judges wrote in a letter to Columbia president Minouche Shafik that they would no longer hire “anyone who joins the Columbia University community—whether as undergraduates or as law students—beginning with the entering class of 2024.”
“Freedom of speech protects protest, not trespass, and certainly not acts or threats of violence or terrorism,” the judges wrote. “It has become clear that Columbia applies double standards when it comes to free speech and student misconduct.”
These, of course, are the ones (the first ones, I’m sure there will be others) who are saying it out loud. Do you have any doubt there are multitudes of others who won’t say it out loud, but will do the same? I don’t.
As the bible says, you reap what you sow. So, if you’ll pardon a bad but apropos pun, I suggest that columbia President minouche shafik, and her likeminded pals running the show there, “read it and reap”.
I will end by expressing my sincere pity for every columbia University law school student who this crowd has so royally screwed over. I strongly suggest that they demand a full refund of their tuition.
