Yale law students rile the judge
A federal judge has encouraged all of his colleagues to "carefully consider" whether the Yale Law School students who attempted to shout down a bipartisan panel on free speech "should be disqualified from potential clerkships."
D.C. Circuit judge Laurence Silberman sent an email on Thursday to all federal judges in the United States, urging them to take the fracas at the nation's top law school seriously.
"The latest events at Yale Law School," Silberman wrote, "prompt 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 from potential clerkships."
The email set off a flurry of replies from Silberman's colleagues, several of whom expressed interest in discussing the matter further.
"I don't know where I come out on this yet," District Judge Eric Komitee of the Eastern District of New York wrote, "but agree this is a topic of tremendous societal importance."
The emails come amid revelations that the protest was even more disruptive than initially reported. According to Original Jurisdiction‘s David Lat, students in a federal courts class across the hall reported that the "floor was shaking," and students on a different floor could hear the din while they were taking an exam.
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These students have a decorum issue that does not bode well for a career as a lawyer. I can understand why the judges would be reluctant to hire them.
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