Georgetown University's longtime law dean, William Treanor, seems to think his school's DEI graduates have a "right" to be hired as deep-state operatives by the U.S. Department of Justice.

How else to explain his obnoxious reply to U.S. interim Attorney General Ed Martin, who asked them to end their DEI programs as per federal policy or they wouldn't be hiring Georgetown graduates?

According to the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Georgetown Law School’s dean on Thursday rebuffed an unusual warning from the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., that his office won’t hire the private school’s students if it doesn’t eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Dean William Treanor told acting U.S. Attorney Ed Martin that the First Amendment prohibits the government from dictating what Georgetown’s faculty teach or how to teach it.

“Given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its own curriculum and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution,” Treanor wrote in a letter addressed to Martin.

The full letter is here:

He claims it's about freedom of speech? That begs the question, because it's not about the First Amendment at all.

What's more, Trump's executive order which forms the premise of Martin's letter explicitly stated that universities were free to advocate for DEI hiring practices if they wanted to, so nobody's free speech is affected.

What this is really about is that DoJ isn't going to hire DEI graduates to serve as deep-state operatives, every one of them a leftist of non-diverse ideas, and many of whom "didn't earn it."

The Trump administration's policy is merit-only hiring and what Georgetown is putting out with its DEI adherence, even as most universities and companies are scrapping it, is bureaucratic bean-counting based on skin color and other identifiers, along with grievance politics and hatred of half the country.

Why should the Department of Justice hire from a pool like that? It actually sounds as though Treanor thinks he should determine policy, including whom to hire.

According to Higher Ed Dive, the executive order, meaning, Trump's policy, and Martin's rationale for his letter, is summed up this way:

• President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs at colleges and other “influential institutions of American society,” escalating the Republican-led crusade against DEI. 
• The executive order declares that DEI policies and programs adopted by colleges and others can violate federal civil rights laws and directs federal agencies to “combat illegal private sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, and activities.”
• Trump’s order also directs each federal agency to identify up to nine corporations or associations, large foundations, or colleges with endowments over $1 billion as potential targets for “civil compliance investigations.”

President Trump's recent executive order banning DEI at colleges that receive federal funding are justified as worth ending because of their conflicts with the Civil Rights Act, meaning, merit is subjected to bureaucratic box-ticking for tokenist purposes.

The other problem is that it's essentially anti-meritocratic, placing skin color above accomplishment, something that puts certain groups at a natural disadvantage and artificially elevates others, creating a lot of resentment and division. One set of rules for everyone is clearly violated in some of these admissions and grading decisions where DEI is paramount.

We saw a hint of that at Georgetown in a secretly recorded moment where a Georgetown Law professor said:  “I end up having this angst every semester that a lot of my lower [graded] ones are Blacks, happens almost every semester,” Sellers said in the video. Instead of asking her if it were true and maybe finding a way to remedy it, Treanor fired her, calling her observations "reprehensible."

Which raises questions as to whether school is now just waving the underperformers through now, which, from DoJ's and every other employer's point of view, is a disincentive to hire anyone from that school.

In 2023 landmark ruling, the Supreme Court held that DEI practices, specifically, race-based admissions to universities, were actually unconstitutional.

Why Trump should hire people from a place that doesn't value meritocracy, and worse still, gaslights that it is a meritocracy anyway, is a matter of common sense. Given the recent history of the DoJ, where operatives constantly plotted against Trump to prevent him from running for re-election, abusing the law, it would seem that professionalism ought to be the highest consideration, which isn't the top value at Georgetown under DEI.

Not surprisingly, Georgetown Law is diverse all right as a result of its commitment to DEI -- in all things, as Treanor brags, except ideas.

Here's what THe Hoya, Georgetown's school paper, reported in 2023:

Georgetown University placed 245 out of 248 schools in the 2024 College Free Speech Rankings by College Pulse and the controversial Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), an organization with the self-stated mission of protecting free speech and thought. 

The list, which seeks to assess the openness of free speech on campuses that explicitly promise this freedom to their students, has ranked Georgetown in its bottom quartile since its first edition in 2020. Michigan Technological University, Auburn University and the University of New Hampshire took the top three places on the list for 2024. Only the University of South Carolina, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University are ranked lower than Georgetown.

Seems they value diversity, in all things but ideas. And that shows:

Here's a 2014 study indicating that Georgetown's faculty is anything but diverse -- out of a faculty of 120, a mere three, about 2%, were conservative. That's downright exclusionary.

Georgetown is free to teach anything it wants, in as exclusionary a way as they like, but they can't make someone hire them with their outrageous values, prizing grievance over knowledge, wokesterism over idea diversity, and skin color box checking over meritocracy.

That Treanor now claims this is about free speech instead of problems with his values pretty well tells us he doesn't understand legal reasoning all that well either. Perhaps there are more reasons than just adherence to DEI at that place that is making DoJ not want to hire them. The last thing it needs is a new crop of plotters coming in to take over, immune to all legal reasoning or any semblance of professionalism.
 

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