WND 
By Laura Hollis
Last Thursday, United States Circuit Court Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan attempted to give a speech at Stanford Law School, where he had been invited to speak by the local chapter of the Federalist Society. In yet another example of bad behavior that is becoming increasingly common on university campuses, a mob of obnoxious students shouted, screamed and hurled epithets at Duncan, preventing his talk. When Duncan requested assistance from administrators who were present, Stanford’s Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach took the podium and not only defended the students’ conduct (“I look out and say, ‘I’m glad this is going on here.'”) but suggested that Duncan was the problem, that his “abhorrent” views caused students to suppress free expression, and that his judicial opinions represented an “absolute disenfranchisement” of Stanford students’ rights.
One might assume that Judge Duncan had handled some controversial case where Stanford Law School students were parties to the litigation. But Dean Steinbach was referring to Duncan’s opinion in United States v. Varner. Norman Keith Varner was (is) a sex offender with multiple convictions for possession of child pornography. After his federal conviction, Varner insisted that he was transgender and requested that his court records be changed to use his new name – Kathrine Nicole Jett – and female pronouns. The District Court denied Varner’s motion; on appeal, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (in an opinion written by Duncan) ruled that the federal courts had no statutory authority to entertain Varner’s motion.
Oh, the outrage. Ultimately, the event descended into such chaos that Duncan had to be escorted from the building by federal marshals.
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