An appeals court judicial council threw out an ethics complaint against one of more than a dozen federal judges who said they wouldn’t hire law clerks from Columbia University over its handling of Israel-Hamas war protests.
The judicial council for the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit found in a Tuesday decision that US Court of International Trade Judge Stephen Vaden’s hiring boycott, and letter to Columbia’s then-president announcing it, “do not cross into impermissible political territory.”
“To be sure, the issues underlying and surrounding the Columbia protests have been politicized, but the letter to Columbia’s president ...
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