Summary 11th Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch says she too will not hire Yale clerks
Judge James Ho had urged judges not to recruit from Yale
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court judge on Friday said she was joining a boycott of hiring law clerks from Yale Law School proposed by a fellow appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump who said the school was plagued by "cancel culture."
U.S. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals confirmed her participation in the boycott proposed last week by U.S. Circuit Judge James Ho in a statement to National Review, a conservative publication.
Ho, a judge on the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a speech delivered at a Federalist Society conference in Kentucky on Sept. 29 said he would cease hiring clerks from Yale and urged other judges to do the same.
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He cited incidents in which students had disrupted conservative speakers at New Haven, Connecticut-based Yale, where "cancellations and disruptions seem to occur with special frequency."
Branch told the National Review that Ho raised "legitimate concerns about the lack of free speech on law school campuses, Yale in particular," and that she would not consider students from Yale for clerkships in the future. She exempted, though, current and past students.
Branch, who did not respond to an email and call seeking comment from Reuters, is the first judge to publicly join Ho's call to boycott Yale. The school also did not respond to a request for comment.
One of Ho's 5th Circuit colleagues, U.S. Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, has called the boycott "regrettable" and said he hoped to receive more applications from Yale graduates. Smith, a Yale graduate, was appointed by former Republican President George W. Bush.
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lumberjackname on October 9th, 2022 at 17:40 UTC »
As a former federal law clerk, I can say that if I were applying for clerkships right now, I would not be applying to Trump-appointed judges. Who you clerked for is going to be on your resume forever. There are plenty of Bush and Obama appointees around.
BlotchComics on October 9th, 2022 at 15:49 UTC »
"A federal appeals court judge on Friday said she was joining a boycott of hiring law clerks from Yale Law School proposed by a fellow appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump who said the school was plagued by "cancel culture."
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Irony is dead.
Randy_Watson on October 9th, 2022 at 14:59 UTC »
Three of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court (Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh) received their law degree from Yale. They seem to be actively trying to cancel civil rights.