{"id":14337,"date":"2025-03-20T18:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-the-g-o-p-went-from-championing-campus-free-speech-to-fighting-it\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:23:57","slug":"how-the-g-o-p-went-from-championing-campus-free-speech-to-fighting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-the-g-o-p-went-from-championing-campus-free-speech-to-fighting-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/26\/us\/politics\/ann-coulter-university-of-california-berkeley.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">particular fondness<\/a> for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power in state and federal government, are behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution\u2019s free-speech guarantees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump and Republican lawmakers say that new laws and policies are necessary to protect students from harmful and objectionable content, to prevent harassment and to discourage conformity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To that end, Mr. Trump has threatened to withhold hundreds of millions of federal dollars from universities because they moved too slowly to quell protests that left many Jewish students feeling threatened. And Republicans in state legislatures have drafted sweeping prohibitions against classroom \u201cindoctrination\u201d and the display of certain L.G.B.T.Q. symbols. They have also demanded the removal of art they consider inappropriate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In some cases, the Trump administration has said existing federal law already gives the president all the power he needs to act. When Mr. Trump said he would deport student activists, for example, he claimed to be acting in the interest of American foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tellingly, administration officials have said they are not bound by the First Amendment when it comes to noncitizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is not about free speech,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/nyregion\/mahmoud-khalil-detention-hearing.html\" title=\"\">said<\/a> Secretary of State Marco Rubio. \u201cThis is about people that don\u2019t have a right to be in the United States to begin with. No one has a right to a student visa. No one has a right to a green card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Critics of this broad approach, including some on the right, say Republicans are being just as heavy-handed and censorious as they claimed the left was toward them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat makes the situation so much worse,\u201d said Greg Lukianoff, chief executive of the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefire.org\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression<\/a>, a free-speech group that often represents moderates and conservatives who claim they\u2019ve been retaliated against for their political views.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNow we have all this federal pressure and pressure from state governments \u2014 sometimes really direct and clear, and sometimes hazy and confusing,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot fewer people who care about the nonpartisan defense of free speech now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For many First Amendment experts and academics, the new laws and orders reveal an especially insidious threat: Public officials who are willing to marshal the power of the state against people whose views they dislike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cA number of people in elected office have gotten extraordinarily comfortable with the idea that they should use that office to control the spread of ideas and information,\u201d said Jonathan Friedman, a managing director at PEN America, a free speech advocacy group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAnd at a fundamental level, that\u2019s what makes all of this so dangerous,\u201d Mr. Friedman added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While the federal government\u2019s role in some aspects of education is fairly limited, it does hold powerful tools that the Trump administration has been eager to use. It can launch civil rights investigations, for instance, or withhold research grants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">States, which provide more funding for public schools and universities than the federal government does, have greater leverage and control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/OH\/text\/SB1\/2025\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Legislation<\/a> approved last month by the Ohio State Senate sets parameters for the discussion of any \u201ccontroversial belief or policy\u201d at state universities \u2014 including climate change, electoral politics, abortion and immigration. The bill demands that faculty members \u201cshall not seek to indoctrinate any social, political, or religious point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sponsors <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiosenate.gov\/members\/jerry-c-cirino\/news\/cirino-introduces-landmark-higher-education-legislation#:~:text=Senate%20Bill%201%20is%20the,workforce%20demands%2C%20and%20higher%20costs\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">say<\/a> its purpose is to \u201callow students to exercise their right to free speech without threat of reprisal.\u201d If it becomes law, universities would also be required to post all undergraduate course syllabuses online, along with the professor\u2019s contact information and professional qualifications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many states have taken aim at diversity, equity and inclusion programs in university hiring and admissions. But Republicans in Arizona are going further, by trying to remove the subject entirely from the classroom. The State Senate <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/tucson.com\/news\/local\/education\/college\/article_6a9eb6b2-f533-11ef-8d56-0be4e102e9bd.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">approved<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/AZ\/text\/SB1694\/2025\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a bill<\/a> this month that would deny funding to any public college or university that teaches about contemporary American society through the academic framework of concepts including \u201ccritical theory, whiteness, systemic racism, institutional racism, antiracism, microaggressions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2025\/bills\/static\/HB0077.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bill<\/a> awaiting the governor\u2019s signature in Utah would <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/03\/06\/pride-flags-banned-utah-schools\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">outlaw pride flags<\/a> at public schools and on government property.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In some cases, Republicans have directly interfered with campus activities. Students at the University of North Texas took down a pro-Palestinian art exhibit last month after a Republican lawmaker complained that it referred to genocide in Hebrew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Texas A&amp;M University, officials <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/thebatt.com\/flipbook\/resolution-2\/#1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">banned<\/a> drag performances on campus, saying it was \u201cinconsistent\u201d with the university\u2019s values to host events that \u201cinvolve biological males dressing in women\u2019s clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The American education system has long been a target for conservatives, many of whom see it as hostile to their values. In the last few years, the country\u2019s most explosive political and cultural clashes \u2014 over Covid policy, racial inequality, gender identity, immigration, Gaza \u2014 have played out with intensity on campus quads, at school board meetings and in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Disruptive student protests have been an animating issue for Mr. Trump. In 2017, he suggested revoking funding from the University of California, Berkeley, after the university <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/01\/us\/uc-berkeley-milo-yiannopoulos-protest.html\" title=\"\">canceled an appearance<\/a> by the professional right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Today, Mr. Trump \u2014 who declared in his recent address to Congress that he had \u201cbrought back free speech\u201d \u2014 continues to antagonize academia, but this time he is using the power of the presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After his administration announced that it was canceling $400 million in funding for Columbia University, accusing it of failing to protect students and faculty members from \u201cantisemitic violence and harassment,\u201d legal scholars called the move an existential threat to academic freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNever has the government brought such leverage against an institution of higher education,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/17\/nyregion\/columbia-trump-administration-funding-fight.html\" title=\"\">said<\/a> Lee C. Bollinger, the former president of Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some conservatives said this kind of action is overdue and unsurprising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen you take federal funds, you agree to abide by all kinds of rules,\u201d said Ilya Shapiro, director of constitutional studies at the conservative Manhattan Institute. Universities agree, for instance, to abide by certain accounting standards and anti-discrimination policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those rules are not always enforced consistently, Mr. Shapiro said. Nor is the Trump administration \u201cexactly being legally precise\u201d in a lot of what it has done, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBut part of this vibe shift that elected Trump is wanting law and order in a lot of ways,\u201d Mr. Shapiro said. \u201cAnd that includes on college campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The arrest earlier this month of Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card holder who was born in Syria and studied at Columbia, was one of the most aggressive moves yet by the Trump administration in its effort to punish pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Mr. Khalil served as a spokesman for a student group <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/09\/nyregion\/columbia-pro-palestinian-group-hamas.html\" title=\"\">that embraces<\/a> hard-line anti-Israel rhetoric and says it supports liberation for Palestinians \u201cby any means necessary, including armed resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DHSgov\/status\/1898908955675357314\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announcing<\/a> the arrest, the Department of Homeland Security accused Mr. Khalil of aligning himself with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. Voicing support for<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>such causes is not, however, a crime, and the Supreme Court has declared all manner of hateful speech to be protected by the First Amendment, including <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/2010\/09-751\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">cheering the deaths<\/a> of soldiers at their funerals and, in certain cases, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/2002\/01-1107\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">cross burnings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt can\u2019t be a crime \u2014 or even a civil offense \u2014 simply to hold and express heinous views,\u201d said Ann Coulter, the conservative firebrand whose college speeches have been the targets of protesters and have sometimes been threatened with violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Coulter, an immigration hard-liner who acknowledged that she had rarely heard of a deportation that she didn\u2019t support, said the president would be setting a terrible precedent by making protected speech \u2014 as offensive as it may be \u2014 a reason for deporting<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>a legal green card holder like Mr. Khalil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Eugene Volokh, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, said that the law is not always clear when the speech of noncitizens is at issue. And he said that Mr. Trump\u2019s attempts to punish noncitizens seemed consistent in many ways with powers that Congress had already given presidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Does that mean that Mr. Khalil can be deported for protesting, which is a constitutionally protected act? \u201cThe only honest answer,\u201d Mr. Volokh said, \u201cis we don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Conservatives have tested the scope of the First Amendment in other ways recently. Ed Martin, the Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/03\/05\/dc-us-attorney-ed-martin-georgetown-law-dei\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the dean<\/a> of Georgetown University Law Center that he had begun an \u201cinquiry\u201d into the school\u2019s teaching and promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion \u2014 and insisted that he would not hire students from any university that continues to offer such programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In response, the school\u2019s dean, William Treanor, wrote in a letter that the First Amendment guarantees Georgetown, a private, Catholic institution, \u201cits abilities to determine, on academic grounds, who may teach, what to teach, and how to teach it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a bedrock principle of constitutional law,\u201d Mr. Treanor continued, \u201crecognized not only by the courts, but by the administration in which you serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/us\/politics\/republicans-trump-free-speech-campuses.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. 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