Heh. I think I probably followed you on X for other reasons but I can’t recall

Oh I hadn’t realized you joined FIRE

I am curious if FIRE or ACLU will take on this case (if the student was indeed suspended/expelled rather than took a voluntary leave to avoid the chaos).

Abbott may have actually made it harder by chiming in because it looks less like enforcement of code and more like political interference.

I also just don’t see the fifth circuit taking the student side on this case or the Texas Tech one — I think it’s been clear for a while the days of protecting college student speech are over (see: Gaza protests).

I hope you’re right but I’m not confident.

Disrupting a planned memorial in this way may not be, though, and I suspect the school will cite that and the impact on the other students and the ability of the event to continue.

The student also may have been encouraged to take a voluntarily leave of absence in which case it would be moot.

To be clear - I’m not advocating the disciplinary action, but I suspect in the current judicial environment it will survive

Not explicitly, but content/viewpoint-neutral policies around campus and operational disruption still tend to be the foundation.

It is not. Enrollment status is directory information.

Promoting violence on campus, depending what “promoting” means, may exceed the protections of Tinker

"hating Charlie Kirk because Charlie Kirk was a loathsome bigot" is an extremely straightforward political motive

will have standing to bring the suit in appeals court?

But district courts aren’t precedential anyway so it’s not surprising to me that the current SCOTUS doesn’t want them enjoining things on a wide scale but if the Government doesn’t appeal adverse rulings to the circuit it seems to me every individual would need to sue because no one can issue the

I think the idea is that laws can certainly be declared unconstitutional more broadly, but the mechanism needs to change (class actions) or it needs to be enjoined at the circuit level (which means you need all nine for nationwide) rather than by district courts who can only do so in their district?

This is horrifying

Instead, they’re aggressively trying to take down the best quality bootlegs with copyright claims. Seems like a missed opportunity to really expand interest in theatre or to recruit fans of the show to see the film (though I don’t think this will take much recruitment)

Isn’t that universal?

I was always bored watching football. Sometime in college someone told me the ball only moves for 12 minutes in a typical game, which is often hours long.

It made so much more sense then.

What is happening