NYU Law School Cancels Federalist Society Event With Ilya Shapiro Over Fear of Protesters
"Shapiro, who is Jewish, has criticized anti-Israel protesters and taken schools to task over their handling of encampments."...
"Shapiro, who is Jewish, has criticized anti-Israel protesters and taken schools to task over their handling of encampments."...
"Dean William Treanor cleared me on the technicality that I wasn’t an employee when I tweeted, but the [DEI Office] implicitly repealed Georgetown’s Speech and Expression Policy and set me up for discipline the next time I transgress progressive orthodoxy. Instead of participating in that...
Not surprisingly, Georgetown's Dean William Treanor took the cowardly way out. Rather than owning up to Georgetown's error, Treanor ended the punishment based on a finding that because the tweet took place pre-employment, it was not properly the subject of discipline. Treanor repeated the absurd...
"the Administration's community email, The College is Committed to Academic Freedom and Free Speech, does not represent our priorities"...
Relentless pounding on tables and yelling caused event to be halted: "We want you off this campus, that's what we want...
Responding to Georgetown Law cancel culture: "I stand with Ilya on the paramount importance of color-blindness. And that same principle should apply ...
"Sorry, but practicing "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" at the US Supreme Court is a very bad idea. The Court should not be thought of as a 'representative' institution. So, go ahead and cancel me, too, for my 'Ilya Shapiro moment'!"...
Shapiro Takes On The Mantle of Academic Freedom and Free Speech Advocate As Efforts To Cancel Him Continue...
Nate Hochman: "Campus groups ban dissent, professors lead Zoom therapy sessions, and some students privately admit that 'we only want Ilya fired because of his conservative political views.'"...
There seems to be a pre-existing unhappiness at Georgetown Law that erupted with Shapiro's tweets the spark. "One student floated the idea of defunding the Center for the Constitution...
"Georgetown’s embarrassing capitulation [to the "online outrage"] is antithetical to the tenets of liberal education...
In each case, expect the non-federal government litigants to focus on whether the agencies involved had the power to impose the mandates, while the goverment will argue that PEOPLE ARE GONNA DIE if the mandates are not upheld....
"Holding that the registration of a trademark converts the mark into government speech would constitute a huge and dangerous extension of the government-speech doctrine, for other systems of government registration (such as copyright) could easily be characterized in the same way," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion.
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