A federal judge has pledged to combat cancel culture by turning down clerk applicants graduated from Yale Law School, where blocking speech or shouting down speakers “seem to occur with special frequency” when compared with other institutions across the country.
“Yale not only tolerates the cancellation of views—it actively practices it,” said James C. Ho of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals during his keynote address to the Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society. The Sept. 29 speech, according to the National Review, was titled “Agreeing to Disagree—Restoring America by Resisting Cancel Culture.”
“Starting today, I will no longer hire law clerks from Yale Law School,” Ho, a Trump appointee, reportedly told the audience. “And I hope that other judges will join me as well.”…