The American Pundit

File this under “Can’t Make This Crap Up”. Lynne Stewart, a convicted and disbarred former lawyer, will teach an ethics class at Hofstra.

A disbarred lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists will be teaching at an upcoming law school ethics conference.

Lynne Stewart, who was found guilty of conspiring with terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, will be speaking October 16 at Hofstra Law School’s “Legal Ethics: Lawyering on the Edge,” in Hempstead, New York.

The speaking engagement comes only a year after Stewart was sentenced to twenty-eight months in prison on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists.

Emphasis mine to note that not only did she violate ethical standards herself, she took the violation a step further by helping terrorists. Hofstra is referring to Stewart as:

Lynne Stewart, who has defended many unpopular clients over the years.

Let’s actually reflect on what she did. She provided not only legal assistance, which is obviously allowed, but she passed communications between blind cleric Omar Abdel Rahman and his terrorist supporters. Rahman was being defended against charges that he plotted to blow up locations around New York. As DrewM. points out:

Stewart was not “Lawyering at the Edge” or simply representing an unsavory client, she was an active and willing participant in a scheme to assist a convicted terrorist further his murderous plots. The idea that she is someone a respectable law school would want anywhere near its campus is unimaginable.

I certainly hope Hofstra reconsiders.