Yale Law Students for Censorship
Wall Street Journal | Editorial Board
A recent protest by Yale Law School students prompted a Senior Judge to write a letter asking fellow judges to reconsider rewarding protesters with clerkships. The WSJ editorial board warns, “Judge Silberman’s letter should, if nothing else, warn these students that there may be consequences for becoming campus censors.”
Judge Silberman’s letter states: “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.”
