Columbia Law School Grad Threatens Daily Wire Reporter’s Family, Dog
The email from Luke Cronin—a former editor of Columbia’s law review who was bestowed numerous awards and scholarships–seemed to be aimed at scrubbing the internet of references to his behavior in order to secure a high-paid law firm job. It is the latest sign that Ivy League law schools have abandoned professional normals for adolescent tantrums and operate in a partisan bubble that could soon send the legal profession into turmoil.
A recent Columbia Law School graduate whom the school praised for exemplifying its “spirit” attempted to bully The Daily Wire into censoring an article on the school’s partisan behavior with an email that seemed to threaten a reporter’s children and dog.
Luke Cronin emailed The Daily Wire earlier this month to complain about a year-old article from this reporter on campus extremism. Cronin, a former editor of the Columbia Law Review and recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, advised The Daily Wire to “take down Mr. Rosniak’s [sic] writing.” He did not claim that the article was inaccurate, instead saying it referenced remarks he made on social media that have since been hidden from the public.
Cronin, writing from his Columbia email address, concluded his missive with an ominous postscript containing specific details about this reporter’s place of residence, family members, and pet, expressing his wish that they have “gotten what they deserve.”
In March 2023, The Daily Wire reported that Columbia’s law school had a collective meltdown because its official Instagram page posted a picture of some students meeting with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Virtually all of the law school’s race-based student clubs, such as the Black Law Students Association, said they would no longer help Columbia recruit minorities in retaliation for the photo op.
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The Daily Wire noted that students who objected to the meeting accused Kavanaugh of raping Christine Blasey Ford, even though such accusations against the justice have never been proven. Cronin, then a “Leadership Fellow” at Columbia, was one of the students who made a baseless accusation against Kavanaugh.
“Kavanaugh sexually violated Dr. Ford,” he wrote on the school’s Instagram post.
This summer, Cronin graduated and entered the job market. Shortly thereafter, he petitioned The Daily Wire to scrub his comments from its factually-accurate article. The timing suggests Cronin may have been looking to shield his partisan comments from potential future employers as he pursues a career in big law.
Cronin spent last summer as a summer associate at Quinn Emanuel, where he worked on the case of a homeless person whose cat plummeted out a window. Summer associates at big law firms like Quinn Emanuel virtually always receive permanent job offers after passing the bar exam. But a spokesman for the firm told The Daily Wire Cronin “does not have an offer to return to the firm.”
Thirteen judges have said they will not hire Columbia law grads as law clerks due to an “explosion of student disruptions, anti-Semitism, and hatred for diverse viewpoints” at the school, saying it has become an “incubator of bigotry.”
At the time he commented on the Kavanaugh photo, Cronin was a Davis Polk Leadership Fellow. The fellowship page said he “hopes to use the Davis Polk Leadership Fellowship to build an outreach organization which directly serves unhoused folks in Morningside Heights and in Harlem” and “connect unhoused individuals with legal issues to legal service providers.
“As someone who has experienced housing insecurity, Luke hopes to build a bridges [sic] between his peers at Columbia and with unhoused folks,” a university website reads.
In April 2024, Columbia gave Cronin its “Campbell Award, which is presented to a graduating student at each School who shows exceptional leadership and Columbia spirit.”
The award said Cronin uses “he/him/his” pronouns and “helped represent asylum-seeking clients.” It said he “was selected to join the Clerkship Diversity Initiative, the Academic Scholars program, as well as the Tony Patiño Fellow-elect.” The Academic Scholars program is a scholarship that pays half of tuition for students who Columbia faculty believe would make good law professors. The Tony Patiño Fellowship pays an additional $17,500 a year for students who Columbia faculty believe show “good citizenship.”
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Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigned earlier this month amid criticism of how the school has handled anti-Semitic protests since Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of Israel, including the student takeover of an academic building. The school has adopted a color-coded security system in light of the frequent disruptions on its campus. Columbia is currently at an “Orange Level,” meaning people seeking to enter campus must go through a checkpoint and show ID.
Columbia University did not return a request for comment.
Cronin’s response to the Kavanaugh photo and The Daily Wire’s story was not out of place on campus. The Center for Engaged Pedagogy at Columbia University’s sister school, Barnard College, used its official Instagram account to comment “WTF is wrong with you” on the Kavanaugh photo.
When The Daily Wire asked the Center’s director, Melissa Wright, for comment last year, the comment request — which included the reporter’s phone number and email — was used to doxx the reporter. In a juvenile prank, his contact information was entered into dozens of spam websites, cult and far-left mailing lists, and dating sites. Wright has since been promoted from interim director to executive director.
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