You remember Ward Churchill — he’s the former University of Colorado ethnic studies professor who claimed that the United States deserved the September 11, 2001 attacks because of “ongoing genocidal American imperialism.”
Well, he’s been fighting a losing battle to get his job back ever since he was eventually fired for (unrelated) plagiarism and fabricated research.
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court rejected Churchill’s appeal without comment. ------ Officials at the University of Colorado and David Lane, Churchill’s attorney, both told the Daily Camera that the Supreme Court’s decision effectively exhausts Churchill’s legal options.
Churchill faced national criticism after an obscure 2001 essay called “On the Justice of Roosting Chickens” found its way into the national mainstream. In the inflammatory essay, Churchill described the people who worked in the World Trade Center as a “technocratic corps” of “little Eichmanns.” (The reference is to Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi who played a big role in organizing the Holocaust.)