Montana Attorney General Fights to Keep Woke Extremists Out of Legal Profession
Hans A. Von Spakovsky, Christian Adams : Jun 21, 2023
PJ Media
The mob tactics of these future lawyers display a fundamental contempt for the First Amendment and the requirements of an effective justice system. They are using uncivil threats to silence and ostracize people with whom they disagree.
[PJMedia.com] As readers of PJ Media know, we are in the midst of a series entitled "Do They Teach Law Anymore?" that details what is being taught—and the misbehavior being tolerated and encouraged—at the country’s top 10 law schools, as rated by US News and World Report. Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and the other supposedly elite institutions in that group have devolved from law schools into re-education camps full of critical race theory and the poisonous woke and cancel propaganda of the radical Left. (Image: Pixabay)
No longer content with teaching the liberal curriculum of two decades ago, these schools have now embraced a more malignant, utopian pedagogy that openly and explicitly teaches students how to collapse and reconstruct the American system of ordered liberty. This goes far beyond liberalism. It is explicitly and proudly revolutionary. What is being taught in elite law schools threatens the survival of our constitutional order.
Given the curriculum being taught, it is no wonder that conservative speakers are now routinely disinvited from campus events—or attacked if they do appear. The experience of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan at Stanford Law School was no one-off. He was shouted down, harassed, and threatened by students from the school, with the active encouragement and connivance of faculty.
The mob tactics of these future lawyers display a fundamental contempt for the First Amendment and the requirements of an effective justice system. They are using uncivil threats to silence and ostracize people with whom they disagree.
Our system, which is based on a civil and courteous adversarial process, only works with lawyers trained to engage in spirited and vigorous—but peaceful—debate to resolve disputes. When you are in a courtroom, you have no right to shout down your opposing counsel or to hurl invective at a judge who is presiding over your case.
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