J.D. Vance Was a Poster Boy for Yale Law School. The School Won’t Congratulate Him on His Victory.

The day after Hillary Clinton was nominated by the Democratic National Committee in 2016,  Yale Law School congratulated Clinton, class of 1973, "on her historic nomination for President of the United States." Eight years later, it is refusing to congratulate J.D. Vance on his actual election.

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Dimming the Torch: Lousy Law Student Joe Biden Passed Bar Exam on First Try, Unlike Kamala Harris

President Joe Biden was a notoriously bad law student. He failed a torts class after he was caught plagiarizing a paper, and graduated near the bottom of his class—76th of 85—at Syracuse University Law School. But he still managed to pass the Delaware bar exam, considered one of the most difficult in the nation, on his first try. The Delaware bar confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that Biden was admitted in 1968, the same year he graduated.

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Republicans Introduce Bill To Ban DEI in Government, Federal Contracting

Congressional Republicans introduced a bill on Wednesday that would eliminate all diversity, equity, and inclusion positions in the federal government and bar federal contractors from requiring DEI statements and training sessions. The Dismantle DEI Act, introduced by Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) and Rep. Michael Cloud (R., Texas), would also bar federal grants from going […]

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The Real Story Behind Columbia’s Controversial Law Review Article—And Why It Matters

Law reviews are typically sleepy, student-edited journals that publish turgid scholarship. The articles may be read by specialists, and they are often read by no one beyond the author and editors. But Columbia University law school’s law review has received a rare burst of public attention this week.

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Columbia Law Review Board Buckles to Student Editors and Publishes Controversial Article

The Columbia Law Review's board of directors buckled to a group of student editors Thursday, restoring the Law Review's website and publishing a controversial article without so much as an editor's note indicating it did not go through the journal's standard editing process.

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Controversial Columbia Law Review Article Subverted Standard Editing Process

A Columbia Law Review article that argues Jews "capitalized on the Holocaust to create a powerful narrative that monopolizes victimhood" was subject to an atypical editing process that omitted "a large number of Jewish students," according to sources familiar with the process.

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‘Irrevocably Shaken’: Editors of Columbia Law Review Demand Cancellation of Exams, Citing Trauma Caused by Police Presence on Campus

The student editors of the Columbia Law Review issued a statement on Wednesday urging Columbia Law School to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university’s unauthorized encampment, saying the "violence" had left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus."

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Biden Civil Rights Chief To Speak at Columbia Law Commencement Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal

The Biden administration's civil rights chief Kristen Clarke is slated to give the commencement address at Columbia Law School, amid a scandal over surging anti-Semitism at the university.

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Columbia Law Students Tell Jewish Classmates Police Presence on Campus Makes Them Feel Unsafe

Columbia Law School students told their Jewish classmates they should not advocate for the school to bring police to campus to ensure their safety because the presence of law enforcement "makes students of color feel unsafe," screenshots obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.

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Anti-Israel Agitators Derail Dinner at Home of UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky

Anti-Israel hecklers crashed a Tuesday dinner that U.C. Berkeley’s Jewish law school dean hosted for graduating students, days after activists circulated a blood libel cartoon targeting the dean and referencing the planned dinner.

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