{"id":1378,"date":"2024-06-17T22:46:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/nyc-bar-association-condemns-federal-judges-over-letter-to-columbia\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:23:19","slug":"nyc-bar-association-condemns-federal-judges-over-letter-to-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/nyc-bar-association-condemns-federal-judges-over-letter-to-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Bar Association Condemns Federal Judges Over Letter to Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The New York City Bar Association released a statement Monday condemning a group of federal judges for what the organization called \u201cimproper use of the judicial offices\u201d over the judges\u2019 recent\u00a0letter stating they would no longer hire law clerks from Columbia University over its handling of the pro-Palestinian protests on campus earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Association\u2019s statement comes in response to the May 6 letter signed by 13 U.S. federal judges appointed by Donald Trump\u2014including U.S. Circuit Court judges Elizabeth Branch and James Ho, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Matthew Solomson, and U.S. Judge of the Court of International Trade Stephen Alexander Vaden, as well as nine district judges in Texas, Georgia and North Dakota\u2014to Columbia University President Nemat \u201cMinouche\u201d Shafikand and\u00a0Gillian Lester, the dean of Columbia Law School.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York City Bar Association released a statement Monday condemning a group of federal judges for what the organization called \u201cimproper use of the judicial offices\u201d over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1966,1178,918,1967,554,915,1968,1965],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-association","tag-bar","tag-columbia","tag-condemns","tag-federal","tag-judges","tag-letter","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}