Greetings conversationalists. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson. Across the nation, the phone number is 877-97373425.

Should you wish to be on the program, I would love to have you with me. Now, there is news.

I get to make it about me, so it's my favorite news to cover.

Actually, pretty significant news has happened.

A letter has come out.

I can't say the words on the radio.

Don't want to say the words on the radio, but you know the letters F-A-F-O. It's become something of a meme on social media. Mess around, I'll say, instead of the

F-word, mess around and find out. 13 federal judges have come out with a letter, their names on it.

They will no longer hire clerks from Columbia Law School or Columbia College after the

university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation

of a campus building.

Considering recent events and absent extraordinary change, we will not hire anyone who joins the Columbia University community,

whether as undergraduates or law students beginning with the entering class of 2024,

Justice William Brennan refused to hire

law clerks from Harvard Law School because he disliked criticisms of the Supreme Court from some

of its faculty. The objective of our boycott is different. It is not to hamper academic freedom,

but to restore it at Columbia University. Signed, Elizabeth Branch, who I know, James Elizabeth Branch who I know James Ho who I

know Matthew Solemson Alan Albright David Counts James Hendricks Matthew Casmerick

Jeremy Kernoodle Tillman Self the 3rd Bratley Star Daniel Traynor, I know Drew Tipton there, Stephen Alexander Vaden.

They say there's been an explosion of student disruptions and the virulent spread of anti-Semitism at Columbia.

James O and Liz Branch are appellate judges.

Matthew Solemson is on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

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