When will public university officials finally learn that shutting down unwelcome speech is almost always illegal, indeed unconstitutional? When will university officials, both public and private, remember that most speech restrictions are not just wrong but malicious and malevolent?
Georgetown Law School has reinstated constitutional law professor Ilya Shapiro from administrative leave, four months after he was initially barred from teaching for criticizing President Joe Biden's vow to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.
Prompted by the leaked draft of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization majority opinion, first-year Yale Law School student Shyamala Ramakrishna posted to Instagram that "the members of [Yale Law School's conservative Federalist Society] are conspirators in the Christo-fascist political takeover we all seem to be posting frantically about on Instagram dot com." She continued, "So why are they still coming to our parties/laughing in the library/roaming these weirdly high school-esque halls with precious few social consequences and without unrelenting daily confrontation?"