Attacks on Law School Violate 1st Amendment: Stephen L. Carter

March 7, 2025, 6:54 PM UTC

I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry when I heard about the letter to Georgetown Law School Dean William Treanor from Ed Martin Jr., interim US attorney for the District of Columbia. In the letter, dated Feb. 17 and emailed to Treanor on March 3, Martin declared that he wouldn’t hire any of the private school’s students unless it dismantled its DEI programs and — more ominously — stopped teaching DEI in the classroom.

Here’s an administration that roared into the White House in part on a promise to sweep away a heavy-handed bureaucracy that was said to be ...

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