Following up on yesterday's post, Georgetown Dean Pushes Back Against U.S. Attorney's Threat To Refuse To Hire Students From Law Schools With ‘DEI’:  

Stephen Carter (Yale), Anti-DEI Attacks on Georgetown Law Violate the First Amendment:  

Dean Treanor responded that Martin was violating the First Amendment by pressuring the school over what was taught. This is true, but it is insufficient. The secret sauce that gives academic freedom its savor is the absolute conviction that neither school administrators nor outside regulators nor anyone in between, should purport to control what happens in the classroom.

Martin’s diktat has a distinct flavor of McCarthyism: “It has come to my attention that Georgetown Law School continues to teach and promote DEI. This is unacceptable.” The passive voice does nothing to mask the meaning. The entity to whom teaching and promoting DEI is unacceptable is the government.

Eugene Volokh (Hoover Institution), May Government Refuse to Hire Notre Dame Students, Because Notre Dame Teaches and Promotes Anti-Abortion Ideology?:

No? Then how can government refuse to hire Georgetown alumni, so long as Georgetown "teach[es] and promote[s] DEI"?

Raw Story, 'Bravo': Legal Experts Laud Georgetown Law Dean's Response to Trump Official's Threat:

Georgetown Law Professor Steve Vladeck called it a "pitch-perfect response." He noted, "It’s always a privilege and honor to be part of the GULC community (and to be Bill’s colleague), but *especially* today."

USA Today, Georgetown Law School Dean Clobbers Trump-Loving US Attorney's DEI Griping:

If Democratic lawmakers were smart — something that seems debatable lately ‒ they’d pay attention to the way the dean of Georgetown University's law school just took a Trump-loving U.S. attorney to the legal woodshed.

• Above the Law, Georgetown Law To Ed Martin: F All The Way Off
• CNN, Georgetown Law Dean Condemns Top DC Prosecutor’s Threat to Not Hire Students Over DEI 
• National Catholic Reporter, Trump's US Attorney in DC Fires Salvo at Georgetown Law School. Dean Fires Back.
• Newsweek, Catholic University Rebukes Trump DOJ Demand: 'This Threat Is Clear'
• Slate, Georgetown Law Just Showed Exactly How to Fight Trump’s Lawless Anti-DEI Crusade
• Washingtonian, Georgetown University’s Law School Dean Just Had to Remind Ed Martin About the First Amendment

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