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I respect the views of people who disagreed with Justice Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation due to questions raised about his sexual conduct in high school. But he was confirmed and is now a sitting Justice. The law school has determined that the involvement of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice contributes to making our law program uniquely valuable for our students. And I accept their judgment. This decision, controversial as it may be, in no way affects the university’s ongoing efforts to eradicate sexual violence from our campuses.
— an excerpt from a statement released by George Mason University President Angel Cabrera, commenting on the demands of Mason 4 Survivors, a student group demanding that Justice Brett Kavanaugh be fired from his job as a visiting professor at GMU’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Mason 4 Survivors bills itself as a “student-led advocacy group in solidarity with survivors, advocating for transparency, and demanding systemic reform at GMU,” and has been using #CancelKavanaugh to gain supporters on Twitter. Click here if you’d like to sign their petition.
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