Stanford grapples with free speech after protesters disrupt talk by conservative judge

STANFORD, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 5: Memorial Court on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif., on Wednesday, August 5, 2020. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)

Stanford Law School has announced its associate dean of diversity is on leave, the latest fallout from an event that brought a Trump-appointed judge — and 100 student protestors — to the university earlier this month.

Stuart Kyle Duncan, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, was invited to speak on “Guns, COVID and Twitter” on March 9 by the law school’s Federalist Society, a conservative and libertarian group. Duncan, who has

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