Tirien Steinbach has answered the criticisms of how she dealt with a judge Trump picked.
When Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan got there, irate protestors with banners covering the walls of the important building greeted him.
After the news spread about the incident, Steinbach claimed he would use “de-escalation techniques” to try to calm things down.
The equity dean at Stanford Law School, who protested in front of a judge Trump had selected and caused a stir, has spoken out.
Tirien Steinbach submitted an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal in which she was proud of the bad things she had done and didn’t say anything to suggest that she would apologize.
A few weeks ago, there were banners all over the walls of the famous building that said Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan had hurt women, gays, blacks, and transgender individuals.
He was requested to speak at the top law school at the beginning of March by the conservative student organization of the Federalist Society for the Court of Appeals for the Circuit. Sad to say, he met nothing but hostility.
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steinbach came in when the students started yelling, but instead of calming them down, she gave a six-minute lecture to Judge Duncan from prepared notes.
Steinbach said in her first public comments about the event that she went up to the platform where Judge Duncan was speaking to “de-escalate” the situation.
She claimed she wasn’t there to argue with Judge Duncan or the demonstrators. Instead, she was there to offer the kids an opportunity to talk more civilly.
The student added that it was important to him that both Judge Duncan and the students who didn’t want him on campus understood why it was important for him to be allowed to speak.
She says she stopped the “verbal sparring” even though she was only supposed to “observe” and “calm things down.”
But the video shows her going on a six-minute tantrum, which she admits was planned and in which she abuses the judge.
After the judge’s decision in the instance of a transgender pedophile, students screamed nasty things at the court, such as “his daughters should be raped.”
Steinbach says she tried to calm things down by “acknowledging the protesters’ concerns” and recognizing that “free speech isn’t easy or comfortable.”
She said, “As the associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Stanford Law School, I fully supported the administration’s decision not to cancel the event or move it to video because doing so would censor or limit the free speech of Judge Duncan and the students who invited him.”