Federal Judge Says it’s Time to Deny Clerkships to Law Students Who Oppose Free Speech

A high-ranking federal judge says it is time begin punishing students who disrupt speakers at college events by denying their bids for clerkships.

Senior U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman sent out an email to colleagues telling them that the anti-free speech left has gone too far, especially in the nation’s law schools, according to Reuters.

Lawyer and legal journalist David Lat described the contents of Silberman’s letter:

The latest events at Yale Law School, in which students attempted to shout down speakers participating in a panel discussion on free speech, 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.

Silberman was appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan in 1985.

Silberman’s letter come on the tail of yet another incident of leftists attacking a college speaker and drowning him out with the un-American childishness.

On March 10 a panel was hosted by the Yale Federalist Society which featured Monica Miller of the progressive American Humanist Association and Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative nonprofit promoting religious liberty.

But when the conservative got up to speak, the leftist, scumbag students disrupted the event and stopped Waggoner from speaking.

During the attacks, Waggoner’s safety was even threatened by the leftists.

Eventually, the police were called to assure Waggoner’s safety.

Democrats are all fascists.

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