Insisting Law School Students Respect 1st Amendment Is Akin to ‘McCarthyism,’ Bloomberg Columnist Claims
Anna Low / March 25, 2023
There’s no place free speech should be more valued than at institutions of higher education—and especially at law schools. (Photo: Sshepard/iStock/Getty Images)
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Anna Low
Anna Low is an assistant with Heritage Action for America, the grassroots arm of The Heritage Foundation. She holds a master’s degree in education policy and analysis from Harvard University.
A Bloomberg Law columnist is upset that students at Yale Law School didn’t protest the First Amendment and shout down an invited speaker, James Ho, a Trump-appointed judge who sits on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
On March 15, Ho spoke at Yale Law School, and according to Vivia Chen’s opinion essay, his commentary went uninterrupted by angry student protesters.
Following closely on the heels of another Trump-appointed 5th Circuit judge, Kyle Duncan, being shouted down by Stanford Law students, the fact that Ho’s speech was able to proceed without inciting mass hysteria should come as a surprise to many, Chen included.
By now, it’s obvious that college students feel emboldened to shout down speakers with whom they disagree or, as is often the case, threaten violence to prevent said speakers from being a part of the conversation at all.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/25/demanding-respect-1st-amendment-akin-mccarthyism-according-bloomberg-law-columnist/
