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Cynthia M. Allen

Cynthia M. Allen: When a judge is ridiculed for speaking on campus, like at Stanford, it’s time for action

Sen. Ted Cruz is known for having strong opinions, many of which are needlessly bombastic; some of which are best ignored.

But that’s not the case with the Republican’s ideas about how Texas legal entities might deal with recent law school graduates, namely those whose years of expensive legal education appear to amount to little other than learning how to heckle campus speakers with whom they disagree.

Indeed, Cruz’s letter to the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Texas and the chair of the Texas Board of Law Examiners, suggesting that recent Stanford Law School graduates be made to answer, when seeking entrance to the Texas bar, whether they participated in the harassment of a federal circuit court judge this month, is spot on.

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