Lawsuit: U. Michigan speech code and Bias Response Team “profoundly chill free speech and open discourse”
If you have not heard of Bias Response Teams, then you haven’t been around campus in the last decade.
These teams, often referred to at BRTs, are the equivalent of SWAT teams standing by to enforce campus speech and conduct codes. All of the problems we have documented with campus sexual assault kangaroo courts apply equally to BRTs – the teams enforce often vague standards highly dependent on how a complainant feels, there is an opaque process with little due process, and the results often track accepted campus political correctness rather than a search for the truth. Yet the punishments can cause lasting damage.
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