On Feb. 16, 90 per cent of students at the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) General Assembly – Consultative Forum voted to adopt the Divest for Human Rights Policy. The Policy mandates SSMU to campaign against McGill University’s investments in corporations complicit in colonial land theft, environmental destruction, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, both on Turtle Island and abroad. One week later, the SSMU Legislative Council endorsed the Policy with a resounding two-thirds majority. Based on overwhelming support demonstrated through a democratic process, it was expected that SSMU’s Board of Directors, an unelected and unrepresentative body, would ratify the Policy. Yet at their meeting on March 4, the Directors declined to do so. Their justification was that adopting the Policy might provoke reprisals from the McGill administration. Instead, the Directors voted to refer the Policy to SSMU’s Judicial Board to confirm that it does not violate SSMU’s constitution. If the Judicial Board reaffirms the Policy’s constitutionality as expected, the Board has indicated that it may refer the Policy to SSMU’s legal counsel for additional reassurance before deciding whether to approve it.