“This discriminatory policy indicates that Yale Law School would prefer to sabotage the prospects of their own students than see them advocate for mainstream Christian or conservative causes,” a Cruz spokesperson wrote in a statement to the News. The Law School also made it clear that this policy will “solely concern hiring practices” and will include “an accommodation for religious organizations and a ministerial exception.” “If an employer refuses to hire students because they are Christian, black, veterans, or gay, we will not fund that position.”Īccording to the letter, law schools throughout the country have nondiscrimination policies similar to Yale’s. “We recently decided that the Law School will require that any employment position it financially supports be open to all of our students,” the Yale statement reads. The rules state that schools should not give funds to students who are working for employers who discriminate in hiring practices based on gender or sexual orientation. In response to Cruz’s allegations, Yale Law School released a statement on nondiscrimination, citing the National Association for Law Placement’s policy and American Bar Association’s requirement that law schools impose sanctions on discriminatory groups. “Public news reports indicate that Yale Law School has recently adopted a transparently discriminatory policy: namely, that Yale will no longer provide any stipends or loan repayments for students serving in organizations professing traditional Christian views or adhering to traditional sexual ethics,” Cruz wrote. In an email to the student body on March 25 obtained by The Daily Wire, Dean Gerken said the Law School would reconsider funding students working for organizations that the school felt violated nondiscrimination rules in their hiring practices. Ted Cruz of Texas has opened an investigation into the Law School’s decision to extend its nondiscrimination policy to summer and postgraduate public interest fellowships, according to an April 4 letter to Law School Dean Heather Gerken.Ĭruz - in his capacity as chair of the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee - plans to investigate an alleged “unconstitutional animus and specific discriminatory intent” to “blacklist” Christian organizations and “punish” students who want to work there, according to his letter.
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