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U.S. Federal Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, a member of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Trump, is stopped from speaking at Stanford Law School.
In an message to students on Friday, Stanford Law dean Jenny Martinez said preventing a speaker from presenting through heckling or other means violates the school’s policies. “However well-intentioned, attempts at managing the room in this instance went awry,” she wrote. “The way this event unfolded was not aligned with our institutional commitment to freedom of speech.”
“I told students this is not going to work in a courtroom, this way of disagreement,” he said. “Maybe that’s where we are going as a society, but that doesn’t work in my courtroom.”
The event, hosted by the Stanford chapter of the Federalist Society, was titled “The Fifth Circuit in Conversation with the Supreme Court: Covid, Guns, and Twitter,” a reference to some of his court’s biggest cases.
Law student Tessa Silverman, who attended the protest, told Reuters that Duncan called some students “idiots,” something Duncan acknowledged and repeated during Reuters’ interview.
“They are idiots,” he said. “They are hypocrites and they are bullies.”
Tirien Steinbach is the law school’s associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion.
In one of the most disgraceful displays in recent memory, a 5th Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan was shouted down when he tried to speak to law students at Stanford. DEI Dean Angela Steinbach then appeared and lambasted Judge Duncan. https://t.co/htAFlELvaF
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 10, 2023
…The answer is yes. Free speech is incredibly important even if a Stanford Dean cannot understand the cost of “deplatforming” and silencing those with opposing views.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 10, 2023
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