There has been an attempt by various legal trolls on the left to claim that the shout-down of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan by students at Stanford Law School was contrived by the Judge, was not as bad as the 9-minute video showed, and was a set-up from the get go.A Trump Judge’s Tantrum at Stanford Law Was Part of a Bigger Plan
Before turning to the strategic element of Duncan’s very public tantrum, it’s worth clearing up some misinformation about the event. The initial narrative was heavily shaped by a video and accompanying Twitter thread posted by Ed Whelan, a conservative commentator… At the start of Whelan’s video, it sounds as if progressive protesters “shouted down” Duncan , preventing him from delivering prepared remarks.
Jay Willis, who runs a website supported by the leftist judicial activist group We Demand Justice, wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle,Much of the fallout has centered on who, exactly, is the bad guy here: the law students who were rude to a federal judge or the federal judge who gave at least as good as he got.
By making his play for the attention that follows cancel-culture victimhood, Duncan showed them the way forward.