Does First Amendment bar public bodies from censuring members for critical speech? Supreme Court will decide
Image from Shutterstock.com. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday accepted a First Amendment case involving a college trustee who was censured after criticizing board actions and filing multiple lawsuits against the body. The high court agreed to decide whether the First Amendment restricts an elected body’s authority to censure a member for their speech. The court will rule in the case of community college trustee David Wilson, who was censured after he sparked “an increasingly chaotic series of events,” according to the cert petition filed by the Houston Community College System’s board of trustees.