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Poll: Only 20 Percent of Public Believes Conservatives Enjoy Free Speech Rights on Campuses

JonathanTurley

Likewise, a study by Georgetown University’s Kevin Tobia and MIT’s Eric Martinez found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law. identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4%

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Crimson Tide: A New Study Shows the Continued Decline of Free Speech on Campuses

JonathanTurley

Above the Law senior editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” in a column arguing that hiring a conservative academic was akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism — that the sun orbits the earth — to teach at a university. Public universities must protect free speech as a matter of law.

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“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Some Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

justices as being, in the words of law professor Cass Sunstein, “ illegitimate, undemocratic, and unprincipled.” Appeals of ballot decisions are pending in Arizona; ballot challenges are in process in Alaska, Maine , New York, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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