Useless Stanford Law School Diversity Dean Who Encouraged Protest of Federal Judge Ousted

Stanford Law School no longer employs their diversity administrator who had joined students last March in protest of a sitting federal judge [H/T The Washington Free Beacon].

"I write to share that Tirien Steinbach has decided [yeah, sure] that she will be leaving her role as Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Stanford Law School to pursue another opportunity," Jenny Martinez, the law school's dean, wrote in an email on Thursday. 

Steinbach is rumored to be looking for work as a urinal cake installer in a unisex washroom in Sheboygan, WI, a career she is highly qualified to undertake.

"Although Associate Dean Steinbach intended to de-escalate the tense situation when she spoke at the March 9 event, she recognizes that the impact of her statements was not as she hoped or intended."

Steinbach had seized the podium from Kyle Duncan, a judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and, in a video that went viral on social media, lambasted the conservative jurist for causing "harm" because he doesn't rule the way Steinbach would like.

"Do you have something so incredibly important to say," she asked, that it is worth the "division of these people?" She went on to tell him that he had to weigh whether the "juice [was] worth the squeeze," a rather cocky turn of a phrase to someone whose is clearly her intellectual superior. 

Steinbach also commended the hecklers—one of whom allegedly told Duncan, "We hope your daughters get raped"—telling the students that she was "glad" to see the protest happening. In a conversation with students after the event, she blamed Duncan, not herself, for the verbally aggressive meltdown and obviously hoped for the outcome she pretended afterward that she didn't want.

Have you noticed how the left is intolerant of the right asserting their opinions and legal rulings, but when the shoe is on the other foot, they're the most obvious hypocrites around.

Though Martinez did not say outright Steinbach had been fired, her email implied that Stanford forced the diversity dean out over the Duncan event, and anyone who pays attention to these events, are fairly certain that she was given her walking papers.

Minutes after the Martinez email went out, Steinbach wrote to the school separately to address her departure. "The honor I feel to have held this role," she said, "is undiminished by the circumstances surrounding the event with Judge Duncan."

She deserves to be fired for the disgusting display of insensitive, and illegal behavior she had shown.

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Trump-appointed federal judges will not take on Stanford students after "intellectual terrorism" ordeal

Well look what they've gone and done, those nasty anti-constitutional law students at Stanford Law School. Those cute munchkins verbally assaulted/harassed a federal judge who came to speak as a guest of the school and now some Trump-appointed circuit court judges refuse to hire law graduates from Stanford and who can blame them?

On Saturday, judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Fifth and Eleventh circuits, Judge James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, respectively, announced they would not hire future Stanford students to clerk for them, similar to what they did last year with Yale law,  according to the Washington Free Beacon.

"We’re not teaching the basic terms of our democracy," Judge Ho said at a banquet for the Texas Review of Law and Politics. "Our Nation’s law schools are failing this basic standard."

He continued, "I worry they’re making the world a worse place. It’s not a coincidence that the worst disruptions typically occur at the worst schools when it comes to one critically important metric: intellectual diversity on the faculty and in the administration."

Stanford, Yale and Harvard, and other First Amendment intolerant institutions wouldn't know intellectual diversity if it bit them on their mortarboards.

At Stanford, protests erupted on March 9th when Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals was invited to speak by the conservative Federalist Society. Students shouted at him and prevented him from delivering his planned talk, and thus his First Amendment rights.

The students reportedly called Duncan "scum," asked sexual questions and said, "We hope your daughters get raped."

There were no consequences for the students for which Judge Ho criticized the school. The defense given was that the students had the right to free speech. But lost in this self-serving explanation was the fact that free speech rights was denied to Judge Duncan.

"The problem is that these rules aren’t enforced. Students disrupt without consequence. Administrators tolerate or even encourage the chaos," Ho said. "Is it really that close of a call—whether it’s okay to call for someone to be raped? Do these future leaders really not have fair notice that they shouldn’t ridicule a judge’s sex life? I’m all for second chances. But I’m not a schmuck." 

Among the protesters' incredibly doltish complaints was how Duncan refused to use a transgender sex offender's preferred pronouns in a 2020 opinion. Yes, he failed to respect or neglect what a man with real or faked gender dysphoria wanted to be called. So rather than having an intelligent argument about this issue, the students yelled at him like spoiled scumcrumpets.

"So what do we do about it?" Judge Ho asked rhetorically. "Well, ask yourself this: What do elite law schools do when they conclude that institutions are failing them? Yale recently called for a boycott of the U.S. News and World Report. And numerous schools have followed suit. Well, imagine that every judge who says they’re opposed to discrimination at Yale and Stanford takes the same path. Imagine they decide that, until the discrimination stops, they will no longer hire from those schools in the future. How quickly do we think those schools would stop discriminating then?

"We will not hire any student who chooses to attend Stanford Law School in the future," Judge Ho concluded.

Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne ultimately apologized to Judge Duncan "to acknowledge that his speech was disrupted in ways that undermined his ability to deliver the remarks he wanted to give to audience members who wanted to hear them, as a result of the failure to ensure that the university’s disruption policies were followed."

And it violates his free freaking speech, Marc!

The president of the Stanford Federalist Society, Tim Rosenberger, said, "A lot of us who worked very hard to get to Stanford are kind of feeling like suckers right now. But you get here, you experience this, you see that there’s a mob, there’s a way you’re expected to think."

"You might have thought the law school was to teach you how to debate with people, and how to make an argument. But in fact, it turns out it’s to teach you how to think a very particular way, to hold a certain set of beliefs. And if you don’t want to do that, then maybe these elite schools are not for you," he said.

In other words, it teaches you how to be an intellectual coward.

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Stanford students want woke Dean who led heckling of federal judge fired

Students at Stanford Law School blasted the school and its woke Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion deans in the school's publication, "Stanford Review." The headline went straight to point: “Fire Tirien Steinbach.”

Fire Tirien Steinbach https://t.co/imVeG5Usgy

— The Stanford Review (@StanfordReview)

Here's what happened that led up to the students' ire. Steinbach is Stanford's Law Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Judge Kyle Duncan at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals was attempting to give a speech at the school and was ruthlessly heckled and screamed at by students. When he asked for the administration to intervene, Steinbach went into a 6-minute diatribe stating that Judge Duncan was "literally denying the humanity of people."

Duncan's crime? 

He refused to retroactively change court records to reflect that a child porn scumcrumpet and repeated sex offender Norman Varner decided after his trial to identify as female and demanded to be referred to as “Kathy Jett.” Duncan refused to change the record to accommodate him.

Although the university belatedly delivered a written apology to Duncan, many felt that it was weak, like an Ilhan Omar apology for an anti-Semitic statement, for example, and Steinbach suffered no repercussions for her unacceptable behavior.

The real kick in the gonads came after the university issued a letter to students who were upset about the interruptions, and were advised to seek mental help. 

The letter was written by Tirien Steinbach!

Judge Duncan had to be escorted from the intended speech by armed marshalls to ensure his safety. This is what is happening to our so-called "elite" universities.

Fox News' Laura Ingraham host of the  eponymous "Ingraham Angle" tweeted:

Imagine if Tirien Steinbach was a conservative white male Stanford dean who had berated a federal judge appointed by Pres. Obama. Yeah, I can’t either.https://t.co/DrZj80Ggl3 pic.twitter.com/ZSbecohqcV

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 11, 2023

The Stanford Review is a student-run independent newspaper. The outlet’s article, credited to “multiple authors,” described their disgust with how the situation went down at a school that falsely touts its commitment to free speech:

Perhaps the only thing uglier than the Stanford Law School building is the events that took place there on Thursday. The Stanford Federalist Society’s event with Kyle Duncan, a judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, was disrupted by a mob of unruly law students and a Stanford DEI Dean who prevented the judge from speaking entirely.

The article did not forget to include the part about Steinbach:

… at the center of the debacle was not the group of unruly law students, but Stanford Law School’s own Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach.

These future lawyers say that this DEI Ass[ociate] Dean should suffer consequences for defaming Stanford's reputation. It also stated that the university's claims that it values free speech are baseless if the administration doesn't actually protect free speech.

The apology said that Stanford would take steps to prevent this from reoccurring again, but didn't say what those steps were going to be to keep this from happening in the future. One thing is certain, getting rid of Steinbach is a good first step.

The article also noted that Steinbach clearly planned for this whole thing to take place:

Someone who is so eager, at the behest of an unruly mob, to shut down free speech, which Stanford itself considers “a bedrock principle for the law school, the university, and a democratic society,” has no place as a Stanford dean. She helped engineer chaos with her email before the event, delivered prepared remarks interrupting his speech, took the spotlight for herself, and has shown no remorse since.

At least some Stanford students (hopefully the majority of them) recognize tyranny when they see it and are standing up against the woke leftists who are obviously unaware of what their tyrannical goals would achieve in the long run, because once those in power get what they want, the underlings lose what they had--unalienable rights and freedom.

The piece closes with a powerful argument:

If these law students are to be trained for bench and bar, it certainly should be with a deep respect for the bedrock principle of free speech. Steinbach’s actions not only degrade the principles of free speech but degrade the prestige and reputation of Stanford Law School itself.

This is a good case of where the children are teaching their teachers.

It's time to get rid of Steinbach and anyone else who would take away our free speech. Consider forwarding this on to a friend, especially those who care about this issue or may be affected by it.

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