‘Dogs—t’: Federal Judge Decries Disruption of His Remarks by Stanford Law Students and Calls for Termination of the Stanford Dean Who Joined the Mob

Fifth Circuit appellate Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan was shouted down as Stanford Law School students watched in silence. “dogshit.”

Here’s an interview with the Washington Free Beacon, Duncan is calling on the school to discipline the students who disrupted his talk and to fire the school’s associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, who stepped in during the event to chastise him and deliver what the judge described as a “bizarre therapy session from hell.”

Duncan’s comments come after almost 100 students from Stanford Law School interrupted his remarks in flagrant violation of Stanford University’s free speech policies.

Duncan’s refusal to accept a student’s application in a meeting was one of the reasons for their fury. 2020 opinionTo use the preferred pronouns of a transgender sexual offender. Stanford’s Federalist Society chapter sponsored the Stanford event. Duncan was so upset that federal marshals had to be called in to help him leave the building.

Tirien SteinbachDuncan asked for an administrator to restore order. The judge was then accused of causing her distress in a video which has been widely shared online. “harm.”

“Your opinions from the bench land as absolute disenfranchisement” Steinbach stated that students have rights and accused him of violating them. “tearing the fabric of this community.”

“Do you have something so incredibly important to say,” She asked him if it was worth it. “division of these people?”

Duncan warned that Stanford, which was long the second-ranked legal school in the country behind Yale, will likely change. “If enough of these kids get into the legal profession,” He stated, “the rule of law will descend into barbarism.”

Jenny Martinez, Stanford Law School’s dean, did not respond to our request for comment.

This is the most extreme case yet of law students shouting at conservative speakers. Yale Law School witnessed a similar incident last year, when Kristen Waggoner – a prominent Supreme Court litigator – was arrested. Doomed to failure hundreds of students protested her views regarding transgender issues. Also last year, students at the University of California-Hastings disrupted a talk with the libertarian law professor Ilya  Shapiro, shrieking and jeering each time he opened his mouth.

Nearly identical tactics were used against Duncan. Duncan and two other members of the Federalist Society claimed that nearly everyone was present to disrupt the proceedings. Many of the hundreds of students in attendance were carrying profane signs, one of which declared: “Duncan can’t find the clit.”

Duncan was unable to speak. Protesters would shout abuses at Duncan, shouting insults and such things. “scumbag!” “you’re a liar!”

According to video footage, Duncan demanded an administrator to maintain order because the noise level was so high that Duncan had to ask for help. Steinbach, associate diversity dean, gave her remarks. While she reminded students of the law school’s free speech policies, which prohibit the disruption of speakers, she proceeded to stand by while students continued to  heckle Duncan, videos from the event show.

She also offered her sympathy to students who were unable to attend. “reconsider” These policies of free speech are the result of “harm” Duncan’s arrival had caused.

At least three other administrators—dean of student affairs Jory Steel, associate director of student affairs Holly Parish, and student affairs coordinator Megan Brown—were present throughout the event, according to Tim Rosenberger, a member of Stanford’s Federalist Society chapter. None of them instructed Duncan to speak to the students without interruption.

One of the leaders of protest ordered the students to stop. “tone down the heckling slightly so we can get to our questions,” A video obtained from the Free Beacon shows. It was then that Duncan began to have a contentious discussion with his critics.

Duncan’s jurisprudence seemed unfamiliar to the students. Some accused him of suppressing the voting rights of African Americans, Duncan said—only to cite a case in which Duncan had actually dissented from the majority.

Other questions were not as academic. “I fuck men, I can find the prostate,” Rosenberger responded that one student had asked. “Why can’t you find the clit?”

Duncan was led out by federal marshals to a back door. They told him that they were there for his safety. “protect” him.

After a week-long campaign of pressure against members the Federalist Society who were named and shamed personally by campus activists, the meltdown occurred.

On March 6, over 70 students wrote to the group to ask it to cancel or move the event to Zoom. “proudly threatened healthcare and basic rights for marginalized communities”—language Steinbach quoted uncritically in an email sent out the morning of the event. The email she sent out, which reminded students about the school’s free speech policies also stated that the event would be a “significant hit” To students’ senses of belonging.

Students began to post flyers with names and faces of all board members after the Federalist Society refused cancellation. “You should be ashamed,” The posters are read.

Duncan was also criticised by other posters for not supporting same-sex marriage. “Black Americans the right to vote,” Denying and accepting “trans people the right to self-determination in court”—an apparent reference to a 2020 opinion in which Duncan referred to a male-to-female child pornographer using he/him pronouns.

The day after the event, the public shame continued. As Duncan was being led away by marshals to safety, protesters surrounded the Federalist Society members and hurled invective, Rosenberg, Harrison Nugent and another Federalist Society member stated.

At elite law schools, such tactics have become standard. Yale Law students also protested Waggoner, putting up posters throughout the school to shame the Federalist Society that had invited her.

“Through your attendance” At the event, the posters read: “you are personally complicit, along with the Federalist Society.”

Duncan found the most troubling part of the Stanford scandal to be the attempt at shameing individual students.

“Don’t feel sorry for me,” He stated. “I’m a life-tenured federal judge. What outrages me is that these kids are being treated like dogshit by fellow students and administrators.”