Free Speech Tag

University of Utah Scrubs ‘Anti-Racist Code of Conduct’ After FIRE Sends Them a Letter

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 27, 2023 1 Comment

“impermissibly compels faculty to voice and commit to prescribed views on contested questions of politics and morality, implicating faculty members’ most essential freedoms of expression and conscience”...

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Disney sues DeSantis and Florida over Reedy Creek District Control

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 26, 2023 39 Comments

Disney alleges DeSantis' attempts to wrestle back control of Disney's unusual state-within-a-state arrangement is "a targeted campaign of government retaliation—orchestrated at every step by Governor DeSantis as punishment for Disney’s protected speech...

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Embattled UPenn Law Prof Amy Wax Sets the Record Straight: “mainstream media coverage has been agenda-driven”

Posted by Jane Coleman on April 23, 2023 26 Comments

Wax: "The mainstream media coverage has been agenda-driven ...

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Stanford Black Law Students Association Takes Itself Hostage, Will Boycott Black Student Recuitment To School Over Dean’s Apology To Judge Duncan

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 22, 2023 53 Comments

"We cannot, in good faith, participate in recruiting Black students into a community more concerned with palliating wealthy, White conservative donors"...

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Texas Bar Application Adds Questions About Free Speech Following Shout Down at Stanford Law

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 16, 2023 8 Comments

"Texas's board of bar examiners made the change after concluding that schools like Stanford—which did not discipline a single heckler—cannot be trusted to attest to an applicant's character."...

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Student Protesters Shout Down Free Speech Event at SUNY Albany

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 07, 2023 21 Comments

"The protesters who stormed the Turning Point USA event on free speech at University at Albany proved my point: college campuses are where free speech goes to die."...

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Two Federal Judges Say They Will No Longer Hire Clerks From Stanford Law School

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 03, 2023 12 Comments

"students who practice intolerance don't belong in the legal profession"...

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Faculty and Students at Washington and Lee U. ‘Sign Petition Against Matt Walsh Appearance’

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 29, 2023 9 Comments

"just one example of W&L’s disregard for those with minority identities on campus"...

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Have Law Schools Abandoned Free Speech?

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 29, 2023 2 Comments

"Not long ago, an alumna of UC Berkeley and the ACLU would be at the forefront of defending free expression."...

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Wayne State U. Prof Placed on Leave After Suggesting Conservative Campus Speakers Should be Killed Not Shouted Down

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 28, 2023 5 Comments

“I think it is far more admirable to kill”...

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Law Professor Might Report the Stanford Law Students Who Shouted Down Judge to California Bar

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 23, 2023 40 Comments

“I am writing to advise you that I plan to file formal complaints with bar admission authorities opposing the admission of students identified as violating the free speech rights of Judge Duncan and their own fellow students”...

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“Charles Negy, in many ways, is the poster child for what goes wrong when DEI takes over a campus”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 20, 2023 21 Comments

My interview on Fox News Digital: "This is really one of the worst examples I've seen where a university, to placate the mob and also because they don't like his opinions, really used the entire machinery of a major public university and taxpayer funding to...

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U. Miami Builds Democracy Center With ‘Aim of Depolarizing Americans Through Civil Discourse’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 20, 2023 7 Comments

Did you know that "civil discourse with people" we think are opposite to us we learn that "we are much closer in views than the cable news shows would have us believe"? Like whoa....

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Pennsylvania Democrat Outraged That Conservatives are Allowed to Speak on College Campuses

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 17, 2023 3 Comments

“I am shocked, appalled and outraged that an institution as prestigious as the University of Pittsburgh is allowing these events to occur on their property and bolstering these hateful individuals”...

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Prof. Charles Negy, Investigated and Fired After Tweets Disputing Systemic Racism, Files Federal Lawsuit Against U. Central Florida

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 16, 2023 29 Comments

Negy, who was reinstated after an arbitrator ruled in his favor, alleges constitutional and tort claims for harm Negy suffered "for nearly two years at the hands of UCF administrators who, because they disliked his political views, treated him as less than human." ...

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The Rise of DEI Policies Coincides With the Free Speech Crisis on College Campuses

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 16, 2023 4 Comments

"it was clear from the start that, regardless of what was on their websites, DEI bureaucracies were more likely to suppress than encourage free expression on college campuses"...

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Free Speech Talk at U. Denver’s College of Law Requires Security Guards and Threats of Discipline to Proceed

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 15, 2023 11 Comments

"That’s what higher ed campus culture looks like in 2023"...

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North Korean Defector Yeonmi Park Says “Universities Must Change Course ‘While Time Remains’”

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 14, 2023 5 Comments

"Because I love America so much, and because I’m committed to resisting any encroachments on its freedoms"...

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