Preczewski, a lawsuit filed by a student against Georgia Gwinnett College to challenge a school policy that limited student speech to two small “free-speech zones”
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To that end, we are filing a Statement of Interest in a campus free speech case this week, and we will be filing more in the weeks and months to come.Ī statement of interest is an amicus brief filed in cases, most frequently used by the Justice Department in past civil rights cases. We will enforce federal law, defend free speech, and protect students’ free expression from whatever end of the political spectrum it may come. “Starting today, the Department of Justice will do its part in this struggle,” Sessions said, adding: The attorney general also vowed that the Justice Department would take action on protecting the First Amendment.
He also compared some the tactics of some campus hecklers to those used by the Ku Klux Klan. With regard to the far-left group Antifa, which considers itself “anti-fascist” but has disrupted speeches on several college campuses, Sessions said its name was “Orwellian,” since fascist tactics include shutting down speech. “But it has been transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness and homogeneous thought, a shelter for fragile egos.”Īs if on script, protesters outside demonstrated against the attorney general’s speech. “The American university was once the center of academic freedom, a place of robust debate, a forum for the competition of ideas,” he said. “Freedom of thought and speech on American campuses are under attack,” Sessions said during remarks at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington. Sessions specified problems restricting the First Amendment at Middlebury College in Vermont, University of California, Berkeley, Los Angeles Pierce College, and Kellogg Community College in Michigan. Attorney General Jeff Sessions named names Tuesday in criticizing colleges and universities across the country that censor free speech by students and visitors.
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