Some of his previous colleagues at St Paul's School claimed Hawley was "pretty hawkish" in his early 20s, supporting the Iraq War in its early levels and at one position building himself popcorn to try to eat even though observing news coverage of the 2003 invasion. Thousands of legislation university students and alumni, together with at Hawley's alma mater Yale Law School, also known as for Hawley and Cruz to be disbarred.