1. Assuming the veracity of this report, I think YLS' reaction was unacceptable. Law schools should not retaliate against students for protected speech (which includes launching an investigation) even when they aren't bound by the First Amendment. freebeacon.com/campus/a-yale-…
2. This story has been flattened into "students triggered by a classmate's Federalist Society membership convinced YLS to punish him," which excludes key details; inviting classmates to a "Trap House" for "Popeye's chicken" is fairly fraught (though not punishable).
3. Retaliating against students for offensive but obviously protected speech only bolsters the victimhood mentality that the Federalist Society cultivates in its members—providing grist for the grievance-industrial complex at the heart of the conservative legal movement.
4. Law students and lawyers should not send unprofessional emails like the one in question, but the administration helps no one by getting involved: not the alleged offender, not the offended students, not the school itself. It is both wrong and pointless to get involved.
5. By launching an investigation into this student's email, YLS invited conservative media outlets to editorialize, as the Free Beacon did, about the putative liberal crusade to "suppress" the Federalist Society—a huge PR boon for FedSoc. freebeacon.com/campus/a-yale-… 
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