On Wednesday, law students from various schools in New York City united in a walkout to protest the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
“There’s a lot of rage now all across the political spectrum,” Justine Medina, a Brooklyn Law School student who helped organize the demonstration, told The Washington Post. She also co-chairs the school’s National Lawyers Guild.
This is part of a larger plan to “connect lawyering with protesting and agitating,” she told the Chronicle of Higher Education. She and her co-chairs called for a national walkout—and they’ve been getting a lot of support.
Their eventual goal is to impeach Kavanaugh.
More than 30 organizations, many of them chapters of the National Lawyers Guild and groups like Democratic Socialists of America, had endorsed the strike as of Tuesday afternoon. Participants hail from at least 12 law schools, including those at American, Emory, and George Washington Universities and the Universities of Miami, Richmond, and Southern California. Law students are also organizing at Duke and Rutgers Universities and the Universities of Denver and North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to the guild, a progressive legal organization.
Ultimately, Medina says she hopes the energy continues long after this week’s activities. I hope so, too, because this is will be a fight where we need people to be engaged for the long haul.