Majority of Yale law students condemn conservative speaker, escalating controversy

The majority of the student body at Yale Law School condemned the presence of a conservative speaker and police on campus, drawing online ridicule days after over 100 students attempted to shout down the speaker.

An open letter, signed by over 400 students, blasted the law school for maintaining an armed police presence at a panel discussion on free speech hosted by the Federalist Society on civil rights law that featured an attorney from the conservative legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom. The police presence came amid a large group of protesters who attempted to shout down the event.