Yale Law Students Must Be Quaking in Their Boots

I’ll say this much for US appeals court Judge James Ho: He’s defying the stereotype that Asian Americans are quiet worker bees who fade into the background.

Ho, who sits on the Fifth Circuit, has been throwing himself under klieg lights. “I will no longer hire law clerks from Yale Law School,” he declared at a Federalist Society conference in Kentucky last week. Ho miffed that the school “not only tolerates the cancellation of views—it actively practices it.”

What better way for an up-and-coming judge to get attention than to plunge into America’s culture wars?

“Judge Ho certainly comes across ...