September 25, 2019
THE CULTURE WARS ARE A ROUT:
The Sixth Circuit Pounds Another Nail in the Coffin of the University Speech Code (DAVID FRENCH, September 24, 2019, National Review)
Even as recently ten years ago, after a wave of litigation striking down campus speech regulations, the vast majority of American colleges and universities still kept clearly unconstitutional speech codes on the books. They kept losing in court, yet they still couldn't quit their codes.Fast-forward a decade and that's changed. Between 2009 and 2019, the portion of surveyed American universities with what the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education classifies as "red light" speech codes has shrunk from 74.2 percent to a mere 28.5 percent, and a total of 17 states have enacted some form of campus free-speech legislation.
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 25, 2019 12:00 AM