The courts have dealt a major blow to the fight against the Marxist assault on free speech in academia. It is now up to state legislatures to end the culture of censorship that is stifling open discourse on college campuses across the nation.
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court made the unfortunate decision to deny review of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ controversial decision in Speech First v. Whitten. The case sought to challenge the University of Indiana’s (UI) dystopian “bias reporting system,” which was upheld by the Seventh Circuit despite similar programs being previously found unconstitutional by three other U.S. circuit courts. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the court’s decision, noting that their failure to intervene “now leaves students subject to a ‘patchwork of First Amendment rights.’”
According to Speech First, a free speech advocacy organization responsible for…
