DOJ excoriates University of Michigan’s ‘bias response team,’ says free speech is ‘under attack’
September 28, 2020
The University of Michigan’s sweeping “bias response policy” violates the First Amendment by punishing students for offenses as minor as hurting their classmates’ “feelings,” the Justice Department said Monday…
Jeff Sessions’ Justice Dept. Is Intervening in Another Campus Speech Case — Its Fourth
September 28, 2020
Jeff Sessions promised that his Department of Justice would be more involved in cases of alleged censorship on college campuses, and the agency continues to deliver on his word.
Trump Administration Challenges University of Michigan Anti-Bullying Rules
September 28, 2020
The Trump administration challenged a state university’s longstanding rules against harassment, bullying and bias on Monday, saying that the rules discouraged students from expressing their views and left…
Michigan Lawsuit Targets “Bias Response Team” That Threatens Free Speech
September 28, 2020
George Orwell may have had policies like those at the University of Michigan in mind when he wrote of “Thought Police” in his dystopian novel 1984. The university’s “bias response teams”…
Battling Campus Oppression of the Freedom of Expression
September 28, 2020
On election night 2016, Mark Schlissel, the University of Michigan’s president, addressed more than 1,000 students, declaring that the 90 percent of them who had favored the losing candidate…
Careful what you say in this university, its speech policies are those of Soviet Russia
September 28, 2020
The thought police are alive and well at the University of Michigan. Take a close look at some of the university’s speech policies and you may…