Federal judges who refused to hire university graduates over the handling of Israel-Hamas war protests didn’t violate ethics rules, an appeals court panel found.
The Aug. 2 decision by the Fifth Circuit Judicial Council upheld a June ruling by the circuit’s chief judge, Priscilla Richman, dismissing a complaint against eight unnamed judges.
The decision describes them as one circuit judge and seven district court judges, which would match the eight judges within the Fifth Circuit who’d announced they wouldn’t hire clerks who had graduated from Columbia University, starting with the class entering in 2024.
The group of 13 conservative judges ...