WTH is Going On with Law School Wokeness? Ilya Shapiro on the Dangers of DEI for the Rule Of Law

Not only is DEI hiring creating bureaucracy bloat in higher
education country-wide, it is beginning to fundamentally alter
our institutions. One place where the erosion of excellence is
already apparent? Our legal institutions – just last year, 12
Federal Judges boycotted hiring clerks from Yale Law School (some
of the crème de la crème of legal education) due to the aspiring
lawyers’ inability to practice good faith, unbiased law. And no
wonder: The Federalist Society at Stanford Law School hosted
Judge Kyle Duncan of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals – he was
shouted down by a group of students. Our guest Ilya Shapiro was
nearly fired for tweeting about Biden’s Supreme Court
nominations. We are, as a nation, beginning to forget… this is a
representative democracy. We are not governed by a mob. Free
speech is a foundational tenet of the Constitution that defines
this country and its institutions. College sophomoric groupthink
on social issues is one thing; but the next generation of Supreme
Court prosecutors already radicalized enough that they are being
barred by current sitting judges? That’s quite another problem.


Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional
studies at the Manhattan Institute. Previously he was executive
director and senior lecturer at the Georgetown Center for the
Constitution, and before that a vice president of the Cato
Institute, director of Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for
Constitutional Studies, and publisher of the Cato Supreme Court
Review. Shapiro is the author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial
Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court.


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