Laila Kirkpatrick, Staff Writer
The dean of Georgetown Law School rebuffed an unusual warning from the top federal prosecutors in Washington D.C. that his office will not hire students from Georgetown’s Law School if it does not abolish its diversity, equity, and inclusion(DEI) programs. Dean William Treanor told U.S. Attorney Ed Martin that the First Amendment prohibits the government from dictating what Georgetown’s faculty teach or how to teach it.
Treanor stated, “Given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its curriculum and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution,” Treanor wrote in a letter addressed to Martin. This exchange with the dean is not the first time that the conservative activist has used his platform and position as a way to prioritize the Republican agenda, especially Trump who appointed him in January.
