Breitbart:
Tennessee became one of the first states on Tuesday to pass legislation designed to stem the assault on free speech at its public universities.
The eight page Campus Free Speech Protection Act was signed into law by Governor Bill Haslam after passing the Tennessee House of Representatives and Senate by votes of 85-7 and 30-0, respectively.
The law mandates that public colleges and universities in Tennessee adopt free speech policies consistent with the University of Chicago’s 2015 Stone Report. Chaired by Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone, the report’s findings were adopted last year to great fanfare. Despite his emphasis on campus free speech, Professor Stone is hardly a right-wing ideologue. He clerked with archliberal Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, chaired the Board of the American Constitution Society, a leading lefty-leaning lawyers’ association, and served on the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Tennessee law will expressly prohibit the use of so-called “free speech zones” to limit the areas of campus on which certain viewpoints can be heard. University administrators are prohibited from rescinding the invitations from students or faculty of speakers with whom they disagree or fear will cause disruption. read more
Let the rioting begin
“I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“I disapprove of what you say, but will beat you to death if you attempt to say it.”
Millions of panties just bunched into a wad….
If the
snowbuttflakes simply must have their hear-no-evil spaces, maybe there should be “NO Speech” zones set up around campus. I recommend inside all dumpster enclosures.Isn’t it odd that we have to create a State law to protect Constitutional rights?
How long will it take the ACLU to sue Tennessee on the grounds that free speech is unconstitutional?
Whats the penalty?
I’m with Gunny, that’s bullshit.