Wow, how strange. They aren't refusing to hire students who disrupted class or who signed the silly letter saying to cancel class. They are refusing to hire all students from Columbia.
This takes the question in the prior post to a whole new level! And it doesn't make much sense -- they won't hire a Jewish student who was victimized by the protests? And why limit it to Columbia?
NEW: 13 federal judges say 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.
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 6, 2024
This is the first clerkship boycott to hit undergrads.🧵 pic.twitter.com/Ex3GlqBUtK
David
ReplyDeleteThe boycott is effective "Beginnig with the entering class of 2024....."
This is even more impactful because qualified students will know not to go there.
....and it doesn't directly impact any current students.
So as my favorite president says, WRONG!
Top law students at prestigious law schools should boycott those judges.
ReplyDeleteThese schools destroying the reputations quickly.
ReplyDeleteI remember my grandfather lamenting “radical” student protests at Columbia a couple of generations ago. Their reputations endured.
DeleteThese types of missives from federal judges are so incredibly silly. Their job is not to punish law schools or law students or try to govern either’s conduct. Their job is to be good judges, hire excellent clerks, and administer justice in the cases before them. Stay in your lane please.
ReplyDeleteBranch and Ho, like Alito and Thomas, want to fight a culture war. They should have the courage to resign from their taxpayer-funded lifetime jobs and run for office. But they will not because they are the judicial equivalent of X, f/k/a Twitter, warriors.
ReplyDeleteCanon 5: A Judge Should Refrain from Political Activity
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(A) General Prohibitions. A judge should not:
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(C) Other Political Activity. A judge should not engage in any other political activity.
What a bunch of performative crap. 5:25 is spot on except for one thing. This is not silly. It is worse than that.
ReplyDeleteI hope they enjoy their Ave Maria clerks.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they could hire the Mississippi counter protester making monkey sounds at the black woman.
Really strange that they are punishing people for standing against mass murder in the name of vengeance and security.
Interesting comment. Would have been a lot stronger if not for the last paragraph.
DeleteBottom line is there are about 900 federal judges. The students have 98.5% of all federal judges available. Most Columbia students seem to want SDNY, EDNY or SDFL anyway and none of those judges are on this Texas-heavy list.
That is your bottom line?
ReplyDeleteDo you think this letter was timed to coincide with the assault on Rafah?
Performative outrage, and reeks of auditioning for the next Fed Soc short list of Supreme Court picks.
ReplyDeleteAlso, gotta love the free speech for me, but not for thee, principles on display here.
Sitting Judges as politicians are a bad look. We recently had a debate about a local District Court Judge being political. Of course, that local judge is very popular among the readership of this blog, and having the temerity to say almost exactly what 541 above said was met with howls of outrage. I guess, as Rumpole likes to say, it's all about whose ox is gored.
ReplyDelete11:19 a sitting judge running for future political office from the bench is a bad look.
ReplyDeleteAgreed on 11:19 and 1:30. It’s getting completely out of control. But no one wants to speak truth to power and tell this judge that if he wants to run for office, resign. Don’t get me wrong. He would be a great politician. In fact, a better politician than a judge.
ReplyDeleteOK so the pro-Hamas protestors glorifying "martyrs" and promising more October 7th's are standing against mass murder? Got it.
ReplyDelete@2:21 reliable citation please, I think it’s quite possible to protest the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians without defending hamas.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the students will be OK without clerkships with those judges. The world sure has changed!
ReplyDeleteJudges should decide cases, period. Judges should NOT be hiring clerks. Clerkships should be filled through a civil service process. Unfortunately judges are political because they are selected by partisans like Trump and Biden. All judgeships should be nonpartisan civil service positions.
ReplyDeleteOn Nov 15, 2018, Above The Law reported, "$400K Is Now The Official Market Rate For Supreme Court Clerk Bonuses" https://abovethelaw.com/2018/11/400k-is-now-the-official-market-rate-for-supreme-court-clerk-bonuses/
Really, $400,000? How much is the signing bonus in 2024?
825 makes a good point. Judges should NOT be hiring clerks. Clerkships should be filled through a civil service process.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who thinks judicial law clerks should be hired as generic civil servants fundamentally misunderstands the nature of the job. The relationship of trust, confidence, and intellectual intimacy inside a chambers requires individual vetting, not anonymous rote hiring by a distant clerical staff.
ReplyDelete@542 - but that closeness is precisely the problem, or at least the reason that anonymous, merits based, selection is valuable. Without it, too many improper criteria can/will/do slip into the process for such an important role. I don’t doubt that this change would have a negative impact on the family like bond that is present among judges and their stable of clerks. But breaking that up is sort of the point.
ReplyDeleteRE 5:42
ReplyDeleteLet me further clarify my comment at 8:25: In lieu of civil service law clerks, a better practice might be to eliminate clerks as we know them now (inexperienced law school grads) and replace them with career civil service lawyers with a minimum of 10 years experience. The current situation with SCOTUS is absurd. Inexperienced law school grads thinking about a $400,000 signing bonus may not make a right decision if doing so would jeopardize that $400K bonus.
Regarding the so-called "relationship of trust, confidence, and intellectual intimacy inside a chambers" that can be a breeding ground for misconduct of all kinds.
"Jewish student who was victimized by the protests"?? There wouldn't be anyone to hire since the protests didn't victimize anyone
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