Welcome
back
again,
professor!
As
ridiculous
as
this
law
school
professor
censorship
saga
has
been,
it
is
a
much
better
beat
that
following
up
on
every
time
Amy
Wax
gets
in
trouble
for
saying
stuff
in
class
that
could
be
mistaken
for
Kanye
Twitter
rants.
But
even
good
things
must
come
to
an
end
—
another
judge
ordered
Prof.
Ken
Levy
of
LSU
Law
back
in
class.
Hopefully
this
will
be
the
last
time.
The
Advocate
has
coverage:
LSU
must
immediately
allow
law
professor
Ken
Levy
to
return
to
teaching,
and
it’s
barred
from
interfering
with
the
professor’s
employment
and
from
violating
his
free
speech
and
due
process
rights,
East
Baton
Rouge
Parish
District
Judge
Tarvald
Smith
ruled
Tuesday
night.
…
“Your
client
should
get
back
to
the
business
of
training
lawyers
and
let
professors
teach,
especially
those
that
are
tenured,”
Smith
told
LSU’s
attorneys
from
the
bench.
While
the
admonition
was
directed
at
LSU’s
attorneys,
LSU’s
president
William
Tate
IV
ought
heed
it
too.
As
it
turns
out,
he
was
the
one
who
ordered
the
suspension!
Getting
into
the
weeds
of
the
dispute
revealed
an
issue
that
turned
on
whether
Levy
was
forthright
with
Tate
on
what
he
said
in
class
and
if
that
specific
conversation
was
clearly
established
as
investigative.
If
Levy
gave
the
gist
of
what
he
said
during
what
he
thought
was
a
casual
conversation
whereas
Tate
wanted
a
verbatim
retelling
so
that
he
could
make
a
comparison
with
a
classroom
transcript,
the
two
were
having
radically
different
conversations
without
knowing
it.
If
that’s
really
what
happened,
this
sounds
like
more
of
an
administrative
squabble
than
the
“suspended
for
political
speech”
conflict
this
was
marketed
as,
but
I
have
a
possible
solution
that
could
clarify
the
problem
for
everyone
involved.
On
the
first
day
that
Levy
is
back
in
his
Administration
of
Criminal
Justice
course,
all
he
has
to
do
is
pose
a
hypothetical.
“Would
Trump
be
able
to
delegate
his
pardon
power
to
Elon
Musk?
Trump
might
have
four
more
years
left
in
his
term
but
we
all
know
that
he’s
really
a
sitting
duck
—
Elon
Musk
is
the
one
who’s
really
at
the
helm.
If
not,
who
would
be
there
to
stop
Trump
from
doing
it?
If
JD
Vance
and
company’s
attacks
on
judicial
review
pick
up
steam,
there
will
be
no
real
limits
on
how
expanding
Executive
authority
could
impact
criminal
justice
as
we
know
it.
Oh,
and
fuck
not
respecting
the
separation
of
powers
for
“criminal
justice’s
sake.”
There
you
have
it
—
a
political
question
for
his
students
that
is
pertinent
to
the
course
and
the
times,
a
question
framed
in
a
way
that
would
likely
piss
off
Republican
gunners
in
his
class
so
much
that
they
go
tattle,
a
script
to
make
sure
that
there’s
no
ambiguity
between
Levy
repeating
what
he
said
and
what
the
class
transcript
says,
and
a
little
F
bomb
to
boot!
If
he
gets
in
trouble
again
after
all
of
that,
then
we
can
squarely
say
that
backlash
was
over
his
political
statements.
Your
move,
Levy.
Judge
Orders
LSU
Professor
Back
Into
Classroom;
School
President
Says
He
Ordered
Suspension
[The
Advocate]
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, a
published
author
on
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
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can
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