Public servants who won’t bow to the demands of leftism have targets on their backs. That’s bad enough. To make things worse, some of the worst ideologues taking aim at them are students at our nation’s most influential law schools.
Simply consider the thuggery directed at Judge Kyle Duncan, a Catholic father of five and former religious freedom lawyer, during a speaking engagement last week at my alma mater, Stanford Law School, where I served two of my three years there as president of the student body.
A belligerent and unruly group of the law school’s students shouted down this judge from the Fifth Circuit court of appeals at an event hosted on campus by Stanford’s Federalist Society chapter. The event was titled “The Fifth Circuit in Conversation with the Supreme Court: Covid, Guns, and Twitter.” The protest had nothing to do with any of those topics and everything to do with Duncan’s defense of liberty and the rule of law.
Before his nomination to the bench by President Trump, Duncan served from 2012 to 2014 as general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the religious freedom legal powerhouse. His work included serving as lead counsel in Hobby Lobby’s successful challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate.
Duncan also courageously represented a Virginia school that directed students to use restrooms consistent with their sex. He also represented North Carolina Republican lawmakers in their defense of a bill directing schools and other facilities with single-sex washrooms to permit exclusive use to people with the appropriate biological
