The Liberty Justice Center Urges U.S. Supreme Court to Hear University “Bias Response Team” Lawsuit
Bias Reporting Systems
November 1, 2024
On October 31, the Liberty Justice Center filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Speech First v. Whitten, a case regarding the threat that university “bias response teams” pose to students’ free speech.
Hundreds of American colleges and universities have enacted “bias incident” policies and employ “bias response teams”—that is, they empower an arm of the university to police students’ speech by monitoring campus, soliciting anonymous reports from classmates, and officially censuring students whose speech is deemed unacceptable. While proponents argue that these policies and teams are needed to make campuses safer and more inclusive, opponents argue that these measures violate the First Amendment, effectively silencing students’ speech and inquiry by threatening to punish anyone who says the wrong thing, whether intentionally or inadvertently.
Read more here at Liberty Justice Center.
