You have probably heard by now about Fifth Circuit appellate Judge Kyle Duncan’s disastrous visit to Stanford Law School, at the invitation of the Federalist Society. If not, check out David Lat’s characteristically comprehensive and even-handed account, which covers both the incident itself and its afterlife as a media event. The short version: Duncan came; he was heckled; he gave as good as he got, which didn’t quiet the hecklers. Tirien Steinbach, Stanford Law’s associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, eventually intervened, but in doing so she expressed fulsome sympathy for the protestors. Duncan then skipped his prepared remarks and moved straight to an adversarial question-and-answer period. Later, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne and its law-school dean Jenny S. Martinez sent a letter to Duncan apologizing both for the protest itself and for Steinbach’s “inappropriate” handling of it.
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