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WASHINGTON (TND) — Several Trump-appointed federal judges announced Monday they will no longer hire Columbia University graduates, according to a letter shared by National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru.
Columbia has been home to intense outpourings of anti-American, anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian sentiment in recent weeks. The demonstrations culminated in a police sweep of the campus’s Hamilton Hall, which students and agitators occupied last week.
The announcement, which coincides with Holocaust Remembrance Day, cited the school’s alleged failure to condemn the antisemitic acts of its students. This, the 13 judges wrote, was more than enough to make them lose confidence in the school.
As judges who hire law clerks every year to serve in the federal judiciary, we have lost confidence in Columbia as an institution of higher education,” the letter reads. “Columbia has instead become an incubator of bigotry. As a result, Columbia has disqualified itself from educating the future leaders of our country.”
The latter also included a list of demands for the school to regain its “once-distinguished reputation.” These included issuing consequences for campus demonstrators, protecting free speech and upholding viewpoint diversity.
“Justice William Brennan refused to hire law clerks from Harvard Law School because he disliked criticisms of the Supreme Court by some of its faculty,” the judges wrote. “The objective of our boycott is different—it is not to hamper academic freedom, but to restore it at Columbia University.”
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