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#FirstAmendment: Columbia Law school administration falls silent before intimidation. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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#FirstAmendment: Columbia Law school administration falls silent before intimidation. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-criticizing-dei-3743fb80

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0:00.0

This is CBS, I In The World.

0:05.8

I'm John Bachelor.

0:07.4

Columbia Law School.

0:09.3

Wall Street Journal attends to an incident over these last weeks that is alarming because

0:14.3

it so much resembles the now well-documented, contra-temp at Stanford Law School these

0:20.4

last weeks.

0:21.4

I read from the journals editorial explaining these events.

0:25.8

On February 23rd, members of the Columbia Federalist Society went to Washington and met

0:30.9

with Justice Kavanaugh at the High Court.

0:34.1

On March 14th, Columbia Law School posted a photograph of the meeting on its Instagram

0:39.0

account with a brief note that the law students had a chance to quote, engage in conversation

0:44.9

and quote, and hear about the court's deliberation process and how to be ineffective.

0:51.2

Not advocate, all very simple and straightforward except for we then learn a few paragraphs

0:56.3

down.

0:57.3

On Columbia's Instagram account where they posted the picture, students and alumni called

1:03.8

the meeting quote, embarrassing quote, disgusting quote, disrespectful and expressed outrage that

1:09.9

the school had posted the picture during women's history month.

1:13.5

Justice Kavanaugh, the journal ads, was part of the majority who overturned Roe v. Wade

1:18.4

last year.

1:20.5

It's a Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow, teaches law at NYU and

1:25.3

the University of Chicago.

1:27.2

And it's a very pleased to say he's a graduate of Columbia College.

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