Trump-appointed judges respond to Columbia University protests with blackmail attempt

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Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, is the host of the 'Passing Judgment' podcast. She is also the director of the Public Service Institute at Loyola Law School, director of Loyola's Journalist Law School and former president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission.

This week 13 conservative judges, all of whom were appointed by former President Donald Trump, told the president of Columbia University in a letter that they won’t hire as judicial law clerks future graduates of Columbia Law School .

Circuit Court of Appeals and Elizabeth Branch of the 11th Circuit, signatories on the letter to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik and Law Dean Gillian Lester, previously swore off hiring clerks from Yale’s or Stanford’s law schools, ironically to register their disapproval of “cancel culture.” A judicial clerkship is a stamp of approval on one’s résumé like no other.

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