They have been forced to be “passive observers of Israel’s assault on Gaza” or face being fired if they engaged publicly in political activity.
Twenty-five US federal law clerks decry genocide in Gaza.

“our government’s complicity in that genocide.”
In their statement, the clerks cited a letter 13 conservative federal judges signed that was released on May 6 that said they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University as clerks in response to its handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

The judges, all appointees of Republican former President Donald Trump, in their letter also called for “serious consequences” for students and faculty who participated in campus disruptions.

The clerks also pointed to a recent trip that 14 judges took to Israel where they met with government officials and soldiers. U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky, a Trump appointee in Little Rock, Arkansas, was among them and told Bloomberg Law the trip was “about bearing witness to atrocities.”

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