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GW Law Faculty Moving To Rescind AG Barr’s Honorary Degree In ‘Secret’
A group of faculty members at the George Washington University Law school are moving to rescind Attorney General William Barr’s honorary degree and to have his name removed from the Dean’s Suite all because they are politically opposed to President Donald Trump, according to three concerned GW Law students who spoke to this reporter on the condition of anonymity.
The Daily Beast first reported that faculty members were weighing the decision, but their sources signaled that they weren’t going to move forward “for now.”
However, the students, who spoke via phone to this reporter, confirmed they had knowledge of a “secret meeting” that took place between Law school faculty members and that a final vote on the decision is set for this Thursday, June 11. The action by faculty came shortly after Barr’s meeting with President Trump last week and the Park Police’s actions in clearing Lafayette Park in front of the White House. Barr had been closely monitoring the protests and violent riots in the wake of the tragic death of George Floyd.
Kerri Kupec, the AG’s spokesperson, declined to comment on the matter.
Historically, GW has awarded honorary degrees to a number of prominent global figures and it appears that the distinction has only been taken away from one person, Bill Cosby after he was charged with sexual assault in 2015.
“I heard that the faculty secretly convened to rescind Bill Barr’s honorary degree, and, in that meeting, a faculty member claimed that the majority of students favored the move,” One student told this reporter. “For two years now, I’ve been wanting to host the Attorney General, but for fear of being ‘canceled’ by the students and the faculty and not being able to get a job after law school, I’ve refrained from doing that. It’s shocking to me that I can’t host the U.S. Attorney General who happens to be a GW Law graduate because of this.”
The student added, “Bill Barr has donated so much time and money to our law school and now they’re going to cancel him. What message does this send to our other donors? If you were going to donate money to the Law School, would you do it knowing that one day the school would betray you and ruin your name? They will take your money, they will write your name on the Dean’s Suite and then once they’re done with you, they’ll character assassinate you and throw you in the garbage.”
A second student told this reporter, “This is ridiculous and it doesn’t reflect the desires of the entire student body, including myself. He is a good man and a distinguished alumnus.”
Ten faculty members met last Thursday to request that the Dean’s Office convene for an emergency meeting, according to the students. The Dean’s office fulfilled their request to discuss the proposed move, all within a 24-hour period, which a third student called the swift action “absolutely unprecedented.”
“Faculty meetings at GW never happen this quickly,” the third student explained. “They’re usually at least a few days notice hear and the call to action and the subsequent meeting all happened within 24 hours, which many of the faculty couldn’t even attend it because of the short notice. So basically the only people who attended this meeting are for the most part those that want to take Barr’s name down. It’s like a lynch mob. That’s what this is.”
The student said the faculty believes, “Bill Barr has abused his power and that he’s politicizing the Justice Department, and, therefore, his honorary degree should be revoked and his name should be taken off the Dean’s Suite.”
The late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is a notable name on the list of the Law School’s honorary degree recipients, despite being charged by international human rights organizations for torturing and repressing his own citizens.
The third student continued, “It’s just ridiculous. It’s literally a lynch mob. They have no facts. They literally are just acting on pure emotion and pure political partisan BS. And the law school and the University have only one time in GW history rescinded an honorary degree. And that was for Bill Cosby. So, basically they are equating the only two-time attorney general with being a sexual predator.”
Barr received his J.D. from GW Law in 1977 and his honorary degree in 1992 when he delivered the school’s commencement speech serving as AG in George H.W. Bush’s administration.
Between 1996 and 2012, he served on the school’s Board of Advisors. In 2005, the School’s Dean asked Barr to head the school’s fundraising campaign. During that time, Barr personally donated to the program. To honor his dedication to the program, the school’s Dean Suite was named after him.
In 2014, Barr was selected to be a member of the Admiral Stockton Society and was given an adjunct faculty position.
In 2015, Barr was appointed to co-teach a constitutional law course.
In 2016, Barr was selected by the university again for the Stockton Society for his lifetime contributions.
In 2017, Barr received the Stockton Guard Alumni Award by The George Washington Law Alumni Association for his extraordinary service to the school, his decorated career, and for his continued support of the school.
Billionaire Lauren Powell Jobs is fighting “immigration misinformation” through her new group Catalyze/Citizens by seeking to suppress mainstream public criticism of Extraction Migration policies. According to Breitbart, Jobs is demanding changes be made to Internet law to allow her to do so, which would require an anti-free speech law from Congress or a major Supreme Court decision.
In a statement released on December 3, Catalyze/Citizens said that Section 230 of the [Internet-related] Communications Decency Act would need to be reformed to allow the group to “counter far-right disinformation campaigns” and “build safer online spaces and AI technology.”
“Through these efforts, C/C aims to champion and elect pro-immigrant leaders, mobilize uncommon allies, and drive narrative interventions that protect immigrant communities and strengthen democratic values,” the statement added.
According to Breitbart:
“The group’s blame-the-narrative campaign echoes the view of many pro-migration groups that Donald Trump won the election by manipulating the voters via distorted media reports. That claim sidelines the evidence that voters recognize the vast economic and civic damage caused by the elite-driven desire for the extraction of many more foreign blue-collar and white-collar workers, renters, and consumers from poor countries.”
Andrea Flores, the chief lobbyist at Mark Zuckberg’s FWD.us pro-migration group, suggested that President Joe Biden take the blame for not spreading a “pro-migration narrative” enough, which allowed the campaign of now President-elect Donald Trump to succeed with their reports on the border crisis and the snowball effect it had on multiple aspects of American life including on businesses, housing, crime and security overall.
Catalyze/Citizens is an extension of Jobs’ Immigration Hub group and is to be headed by Beatriz Lopez who backed the mission to “tackle the source of disinformation by championing policies and solutions that ensure social media responsibility and online and AI safety.”
Each proponent cited discussing the mission of Catalyze/Citizens appears to consistently reference the need to address “dangerous online disinformation.” It is noteworthy that social media companies have come under scrutiny for their information policing of users, which critics argue hamper First Amendment rights.
The group Catalyze/Citizens also pointed out that Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign failed to focus on immigration policies and frame them in a favorable light. A report released by the group shows that Trump, on the other hand, focused largely on immigration spending millions to “frame immigration as a national threat.”
According to Breitbart, the Extraction Migration policy championed by Jobs and criticized by Trump can be explained as follows:
“The migration policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries. The additional workers, white-collar graduates, consumers, and renters push up stock values by shrinking Americans’ wages, subsidizing low-productivity companies, boosting rents, and spiking real estate prices.”
Breitbart adds, “The little-recognized economic policy has loosened the economic and civic feedback signals that animate a stable economy and democracy. It has pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors, reduced Americans’ productivity and political clout, slowed high-tech innovation, shrunk trade, crippled civic solidarity, and incentivized government officials and progressives to ignore the rising death rate of discarded, low-status Americans.”
President-elect Donald Trump recognized the implications of this policy, and has worked hard to warn Americans against it. In an effort to defend the policy however, supporters of it are calling Trump’s efforts “narrative trickery,” which led to the development of Catalyze/Citizens. If able, progressives see that the solution is in shifting the narrative by targeting speech critical of the policy.
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