Campus Free Speech
“The Trump Administration’s Unconstitutional Hate Mail to Harvard,” by Prof. Genevieve Lakier (Chicago)
I've worked with Prof. Lakier on various projects recently, and have been much impressed with her analyses (as well as by her scholarship more generally). I'm therefore delighted to pass along her thoughts on the…
Columbia Students’ Lawsuit Potentially “Raises Serious Questions” Under the First Amendment
From Judge Arun Subramanian's order today in Khalil v. Trustees of Columbia Univ. (S.D.N.Y.): Plaintiffs are students who say the federal government has unlawfully coerced Columbia University to suppress their protected…
Did wokeness and Trump kill literary satire?
Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips our imagination on a daily—or even hourly—basis? Today's guests are two young novelists who are redefining…
AFA Statement on Speech Rights of Foreign Nationals
After several high-profile examples of university students having their authorization to study in the United States revoked and of international scholars being turned away at the border, the Academic Freedom Alliance has…
Universities Should Challenge Trump’s Speech-Based Deportations of Students in Court
Tufts University. (Tufts University) The Trump administration has been detaining and trying to deport immigrant and foreign students for their First-Amendment protected speech. That includes even speech that does not even…
Rubio says he’s revoked 300 student visas over campus activism
Over the past several weeks, a handful of student visa holders and other legal residents have faced deportation for nebulous allegations that they supported terrorism—often being detained and taken away by immigration…
Texas A&M’s drag show ban reveals the bipartisan threat to campus free speech
This week a federal judge stepped in to save a student-sponsored drag show at Texas A&M University. The need for that intervention shows that efforts to control on-campus speech, long decried by conservatives who…
Trump’s sister agreed the law used to deport Mahmoud Khalil is unconstitutional
For weeks, President Donald Trump and other federal officials have made it clear that they want to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States, because they do not like what he had to say as an…
Federal judge Lee Rosenthal blocks Texas A&M from banning drag shows
A federal judge has blocked the Texas A&M University System from banning drag shows, clearing the way for an upcoming student-run drag performance that administrators had canceled on the grounds that they demeaned women…
Lawsuit Over Binghamton University’s Alleged Suppression of Lecture by Economist Arthur Laffer Can Go Forward
From Judge Lawrence Kahn's opinion yesterday in Young America's Found. v. Stenger (S.D.N.Y.): On the morning of the Laffer Event , the University's Senior Director of Media and Public Relations forwarded to UPD…
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