Stanford Law drops threat to withhold diploma from student who mocked Sen. Hawley, Texas AG Paxton

Stanford Law School has dropped its hold on the diploma of a student who mocked two Republican lawmakers and a conservative society on campus over the Jan. 6 riot.

Nicholas Wallace, 33, had distributed a flyer to his law school email listserv on Jan. 25 entitled "The Originalist Case for Inciting Insurrection," promoting a fake event hosted by the school’s Federalist Society that invited Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Texas attorney general Ken Paxton to discuss "violent insurrection."  Stanford informed Wallace there was a complaint against him for the flyer on May 27, and placed a hold on his diploma with roughly two weeks until graduation on June 12.