Stanford Law School Suspends Diversity Dean After She Doubles-Down On Duncan Debacle

Jenny Martinez, the law school's dean, said in a Wednesday morning memo to all law students that administrators "should not insert themselves into debate with their own criticism of the speaker's views." At future talks, the role of administrators will be to "ensure that university rules on disruption of events will be followed," Martinez said.
Martinez gave no additional details on the terms of Steinbach's leave, stating that the "university does not comment publicly on pending personnel matters." She also ruled out disciplining any of the students who shouted down Duncan - in part, she said, because administrators sent "conflicting signals about whether what was happening was acceptable or not."
Instead, the law school will require all students to attend a training on "freedom of speech and the norms of the legal profession," which will discuss, among other things, how "vulgar personal insults" can harm students' "professional reputations."
That warning appears to be in reference to protesters who hurled sexual invective at Duncan, with one allegedly telling him, "We hope your daughters get raped."

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VySky said:

She's trying to talk out both sides of her mouth.

Free speech isn't free. You didn't build that. On and on and on..............

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Tirien Steinbach, the diversity administrator at Stanford Law School who stoked a disruptive protest of Fifth Circuit appellate judge Kyle Duncan, is "currently on leave," according to a memo on the protest reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.


It comes amid calls from Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and others for state bar associations to investigate the hecklers, which could potentially hold up their legal licenses.




As Jonathan Turley details below, this "leave" comes after Steinbach publicly responded and appears to be doubling down on her actions in a Wall Street Journal opinion column.



First a short recap of how we got here.



The Stanford Federalist Society invited Judge Duncan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to speak on campus. However, liberal students, including members from the National Lawyer’s Guild, decided that allowing a conservative judge to speak on campus is intolerable and set about to “deplatform” him by shouting him down.

In this event, Duncan was planning to speak on the topic: “The Fifth Circuit in Conversation with the Supreme Court: Covid, Guns, and Twitter.” A video shows that the students prevented Duncan from speaking from the very beginning. Many called him a racist while others hurled insults like one yelling “We hope your daughters get raped.”

Duncan was unable to continue and asked for an administrator to assist him.

Dean Steinbach then took the stage and criticized the judge for seeking to be heard despite such objections.



Steinbach explained “I had to write something down because I am so uncomfortable up here. And I don’t say that for sympathy, I just say that I am deeply, deeply uncomfortable.” While reaffirming her belief in free speech and insisting that the judge should not be cancelled, she proceeded to attack the judge for the content of his views.

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eohrnberger said:

Frankly, all of these DEI invented positions, public and private, need to be declared redundant, and eliminated.

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eohrnberger said:

Frankly, all of these DEI invented positions, public and private, need to be declared redundant, and eliminated.

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Roadvirus said:

Actually, in the corporate world, DEI positions are first in line to get the chop during layoff rounds.

Remember the recent deluge of tech layoffs? Guess what positions saw some cuts

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PoS said:

Isnt it ironic that these so-called diversity faculty members are always the ones who want to shut down any form of discussions that goes against their woke agenda.

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Roadvirus said:

Actually, in the corporate world, DEI positions are first in line to get the chop during layoff rounds.

Remember the recent deluge of tech layoffs? Guess what positions saw some cuts

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