Columbia Law Students Lose Their Minds Because Classmates Met With Brett Kavanaugh

Students at Columbia Law School are unhappy that some of their peers met with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. This is another example of American law school students trying to suppress conservative ideas and speakers.

On February 23rd, members of the New York City law school’s Federalist Society chapter traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with Kavanaugh. A photo posted on the school’s Instagram shows Kavanaugh with the students. They discussed “the human side of being a justice” and “how to be an effective advocate,” according to the post. Students were unhappy with the meeting and several took to the comments section to demand that Columbia “do better.”

This incident is evidence of law school campuses leaning left and away from free speech. Earlier this month, Stanford University law students and the school’s diversity dean shouted down Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan. Later, students protested the school’s apology for Duncan’s botched speech.

Columbia students and alumni reacted similarly to the Instagram post. “As an alumnus, this is shameful and unnecessary on so many levels,” one commenter wrote. Several posters noted that the photo was posted during Women’s History Month. “Why is this still up??? I’m embarrassed to be associated with you,” another user said.

Student groups, such as the Black Law Students Association of Columbia and the abortion rights organization If/When/How, wrote letters demanding that the post be taken down, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Black Law Students Association said that it won’t support Columbia’s efforts to recruit black students because “the Columbia Law School administration may be comfortable wallowing in ‘apoliticism’ and neutrality, but we are not.”

Law schools are following the lead of undergraduate universities, which have witnessed violence and chaos during conservative events and speeches. Students at George Mason University recently protested the school’s decision to have Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) as the commencement speaker, citing his conservative policies.