Glenn Greenwald Slams Professors in Growing Georgetown Law Controversy

It started with an official statement and press release from Georgetown Law mourning the loss of alum Antonin Scalia -- now, the resulting fight has one of the most famous journalists in the world weighing in.

Georgetown’s dean, William M. Treanor, praised the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice and 1957 graduate after news of his passing, prompting an email response from professors who countered that Scalia was bigoted and unworthy of honor -- which in turn resulted in yet another email from conservative professors who claimed such comments caused “trauma” in conservative students at the law school.

It’s certainly not your ordinary reply-all email fight, as evidenced by the fact that Glenn Greenwald -- a journalist who became famous for assisting Edward Snowden in his leaks on the activities of the National Security Agency -- has decided to weigh in on the fight via a column in The Intercept.

Greenwald didn’t take issue with the dean’s statement, nor the initial response, saying that it was a good representation of what debate should look like at the school over a figure as controversial as Scalia.

Instead, Greenwald slammed the two conservative professors who said the debate had traumatized conservative students.

“We should be mocking these right-wing professors for invoking the most extreme and dubious version of the ‘safe space’ rationale that dictates that adult students must never be exposed to arguments they find upsetting,” he wrote.