Tomorrow elite lawyers reject due process
Tomorrow elite lawyers reject due process
At the last count, more than 1,700 law professors signed an open letter complaining that Judge Brett Kavanaugh "showed a lack of judicial temperament" in responding to uncorroborated sexual assault allegations against him. In his 12 years at the federal bank, Judge Kavanaugh has presented ample evidence of his judicial temperament. If the temperament of someone should concern these teachers, it is that of their students, captivated by the identity policy and the ideology of the victim.
Immediately after President Trump nominated Judge Kavanaugh in July, hundreds of law students, former students and Yale teachers signed a petition alleging that the nomination presented an "emergency." . . for our safety. "When Christine Blasey Ford's accusations were made public in September, Yale law students called a city hall to fight a" culture "on campus" that privileges power and prestige over safety and security. wellness, [and] that prevents many of us from flourishing in this space. "
When the New Yorker published its own uncorroborated account of the lascivious behavior allegedly committed by Mr. Kavanaugh as a freshman at Yale, the Yale law students organized an open letter in support of "all the women who they have suffered sexual assault, not only on Yale but in every country. "Thirty-one Yale law professors canceled classes to facilitate student protests against Judge Kavanaugh, both in New Haven and on Capitol Hill. a tray of cookies so that students "know we're thinking of you."
Not to be outdone, Harvard law students dropped out the day after the New Yorker article appeared, with pink buttons saying "I believe in Christine Blasey Ford." The United States must "support these survivors," the president of the Harvard Black Law. Association of students told the crowd. The dean of students announced: "We are supporting our students as they deal with these problems." It is unknown if you provided cookies.
Judge Kavanaugh has taught a three-week course at Harvard every January since 2008. Nearly 1,000 former Harvard Law students signed a petition saying their presence on campus would now send a message to the students that powerful men are on their way. above the law. In a letter to the dean, some first-year law students claimed that allowing Mr. Kavanaugh to teach would create a "hostile environment for many students, and especially for survivors." Several college students filed Title IX complaints for the same reasons, according to the Harvard Crimson. Earlier this week, Judge Kavanaugh announced that he will not teach in 2019. His faculty page has been deleted from the school's website.
Kavanaugh's hysteria has given the country an intensive course in the politics of academic victims. The tribal denunciations of "privileged white men", the moral panic about fantastic stories of sexual depredation, the show of the Ivy League law students who say they feel "insecure", the claim that a single uncorroborated outbreak of male hormones adolescents should cancel a lifetime of achievement in the law: everything originates in the anti-enlightenment spirit of the academy, embodied in critical studies of race, feminist legal theory and attacks on the Socratic teaching method as anti-woman and anti-"survivor".
The #BelieveSurvivors mantra is a cornerstone of the campus claims industry, but contrary to everything a law school should teach. It is a religious gesture, not a legal one: such a belief is independent of the evidence, which arises from a pre-existing commitment to a narrative of the ubiquitous abuse of women by patriarchal white men. The "survivor" label presupposes the conclusion that the evidence must state: that the accused is guilty of a crime. The researcher, if there is one, considers the contradictions or gaps in a woman's history as evidence of a "trauma" and, therefore, as an additional corroboration. According to the #BelieveSurvivors logic, the Innocence Project, which exists to eliminate wrongful convictions and has a presence in law schools across the country, must be dissolved.
There are many examples of complaints of student violations that arise from the voluntary connections of drunks, after which the victim herself sought more sexual contact with her alleged rapist. Even if such cases were not so common, to assume the defendant's guilt solely for an accusation would be an affront to due process.
The current generation of elite law students will one day become judges. If they remain committed to the circular logic of #BelieveSurvivors, the rule of law is in trouble.
Ms. Mac Donald is a senior member of the Manhattan Institute and author of "The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering corrupts the university and undermines our culture."
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