‘Dogshit’: 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.”

In 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 hosted the event. Federal marshals were called in to assist Duncan.

Tirien SteinbachDuncan, who was asking for an administrator in order to restore order, called Judith, the school’s diversity director. In a video now widely circulated online, she accused Duncan of causing the problems. “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 second in the country for law schools, 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. Similar incidents occurred last year at Yale Law School when Kristen Waggoner (a prominent Supreme Court litigator) was arrested. Don’t drown hundreds of students protested her views on transgender topics. 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.

The tactics used to attack Duncan were almost identical. Duncan and two members from the Federalist Society said that almost everyone in the room came to disrupt the proceeding. Duncan also stated that many of the students present were carrying profane signs. One even 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, Duncan requested an administrator to maintain order as the noise was too loud. 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 expressed her sympathy to students who want to study. “reconsider” These free speech policies are given the “harm” Duncan’s appearance was a cause.

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 protest leaders eventually instructed the students to “tone down the heckling slightly so we can get to our questions,” A video taken by the Free Beacon shows this. This sparked a heated discussion between Duncan, who was unable to read his prepared remarks and those who were critical of him, who continued interrupting and jeering as he spoke.

Students seemed to be unfamiliar with Duncan’s jurisprudence. 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 said that one student asked. “Why can’t you find the clit?”

Duncan was taken out of the back door by federal marshals who said that they were there to assist him. “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” Students’ sense of belonging

After the Federalist Society refused a cancellation, students started putting up flyers with the names and faces for everyone on the board. “You should be ashamed,” The posters are read.

Duncan was criticized by others for his opposition to same-sex marital, which he denies. “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. While Duncan was being taken away by marshals protestors surrounded Duncan and hurled invective towards them, Rosenberg, and Harrison Nugent (a Federalist Society member) said.

These tactics are now standard at top law schools. With posters strewn throughout Yale Law, the Yale Law students who protested Waggoner also sought to shame Federalist Society, which had invited them.

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

Duncan saw the worst part of the Stanford scandal as the attempt to shame students.

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