JTN: “California’s goal of promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in public universities does not give it the authority to invalidate protected expressions of speech.”
With those words, a federal judge sent the Kern Community College District scrambling on how to respond to his ruling in a First Amendment lawsuit by a professor and its implications for an older ongoing lawsuit by a pair of professors.
The Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting Friday morning to confer with its legal counsel in closed session about the litigation by Daymon Johnson, Matthew Garrett and Erin Miller, all related to the historians’ activities with Bakersfield College’s right-leaning Renegade Institute for Liberty (RIFL) and its clashes with the school’s progressive Social Justice Institute.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Christopher Baker issued his findings to District Judge Ana de Alba days earlier, recommending the denial of KCCD’s motion to dismiss Johnson’s suit and partial approval of a preliminary injunction against its enforcement of the state’s DEIA regulations. more here
igotsyo crt/dei swinging, assholes
The Districts legal council said, “You know, you really should have talked to us a long time ago.”
You guys ever wonder why they call it freedom of speech when the FBI is actively monitoring our free speech on this site?
IOTW critters are at the top of the domestic extremist watch list. They are terrified because they know we know.
That’s why they put active trolls in to stir us into entrapment.