Bloomberg Law
March 16, 2023, 3:46 PM UTC

McCarthyism Is Rearing Its Head in America’s Law Schools

Vivia Chen
Vivia Chen
Columnist

Conservative firebrand James Ho, a judge on the Fifth Circuit, spoke at Yale Law School yesterday, and according to my sources, it went without a hitch. No disruptions, or mentions of his vow to boycott Yale Law students for clerkship hires. And no questions about his incendiary op-ed published earlier in the day.

I don’t know if the students were being inordinately polite or missed Ho’s latest rant against “woke” law schools—but it should’ve sparked outrage.

Along with Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch, Ho advocated for cracking down on student protesters. Alluding to instances when students shouted down conservative speakers, ...

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