Federal Judge Wm. Acker Denies Clerkships to Yale Law Grads

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Judge won't use clerks from Yale
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
VAL WALTON
News staff writer
An Alabama federal judge has told Yale Law School he won't accept its graduates for clerkships because the school blocks military recruiters from campus.

Senior U.S. District Judge William Acker Jr., a Yale graduate, explained his decision in a Monday letter to the law school's Dean Harold Koh.


Acker wrote that he was exercising the same freedom of speech that U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall supported when she ruled Jan. 31. She backed the faculty's claim that their rights to free speech were violated by enforcement of the Solomon amendment, which requires schools to provide access to military recruiters or lose federal funding, including student loans.

In response, Acker said Yale Law School students need not apply. (snip)

Source: www.al.com

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1. My opinion: Screw you, Judge Acker!

Yale is right to seek to keep the lying military recruiters off its campus. Yale has the best interests of its students at heart. Undergraduates--even intelligent ones--are naive and inexperienced, and are unable as yet to grasp that there really is evil at their doorstep. Evil--such as people who seek to shanghai them into paying with their young lives for the greed and plunder of big, rich oil interests and empire-builders.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

2. Like Yale Law Students will have trouble finding a job...puhleeze.

This Acker isn't hurting the Yale students...they are the cream of the crop (along with the other Ivy League lawyers).

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4. True... but whose clerkships does he think those are??

Federal judges are appointed... they are supposed to be appointed by someone who is ELECTED by the people of this country. (In Acker's case I think it was Nixon or Reagan). The judge choices of the elected official should reflect the will of the people.

I mean, our government is supposed to belong to US! Does Acker pay his clerks out of his own tight little pocket? Hell no! He pays them with federal funds--with the people's money!

If he's so eager to increase the military with recruits, LET HIM SEND HIS OWN CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!!!!!

[LizW]

3. I'm sure the Yale Law grads are crushed

that they will be denied the opportunity to work for Judge Acker and live here in Birmingham. :eyes:

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5. I guess I'm just sick of government creeps who have a God complex...

there sure are a lot of them these days!

[MountainLaurel]

8. Snork.

Yeah, I'm sure he has to beat them off with a stick.

[Devil Dog Dem]

6. Oh, that'll show 'em. Those Yallies will be heartbroker about . . .

not being able to spend a year in Alabama!

[dolstein]

7. The last time I checked, Yale students weren't a protected class

Personally, I can think of a dozen or so better reasons for not hiring Yale law students as clerks. But still, the reasons this judge has given are not grounds for a discrimination suit.