Conservatives scored a major legal victory against UC Berkeley which has agreed to compensate Young America's Foundation and Berkeley College Republicans for trampling the First Amendment rights of conservative speakers and students on its campus.
The Trump administration previously weighed in on the side of the campus conservatives who argued UC Berkeley's restrictive policies violated First Amendment free speech rights and the equal protection and due process guarantees in the Fourteenth Amendment.
UC Berkeley's hostility toward free speech is well-established.
The administration at UC Berkeley only pretended to adhere to the First Amendment's speech protections.
The threat of violence by Antifa at UC Berkeley also led to the cancelation of a planned on-campus premiere of a documentary film this writer executive-produced, America Under Siege: Antifa, during Yiannopoulos's planned Free Speech Week at the school.
"This landmark victory for free expression means UC Berkeley can no longer wantonly treat conservative students as second-class members of its community while ignoring the guaranteed protections of the First Amendment," according to YAF. Under the settlement's provisions, UC Berkeley will no longer be able to impose a 3:00 p.m. curfew on conservative speech.
"Further, the policy that allowed Berkeley administrators to charge conservative students $20,000 for security to host Ben Shapiro-an amount three times greater than the fee charged to leftist students to host liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor-is gone," according to YAF. "YAF and UC Berkeley agreed to a fee schedule that treats all students equally. Unless students are handling money or serving alcohol at an event, the security fee will be zero."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272160/conservatives-triumph-over-free-speech-hating-uc-matthew-vadum
The Trump administration previously weighed in on the side of the campus conservatives who argued UC Berkeley's restrictive policies violated First Amendment free speech rights and the equal protection and due process guarantees in the Fourteenth Amendment.
UC Berkeley's hostility toward free speech is well-established.
The administration at UC Berkeley only pretended to adhere to the First Amendment's speech protections.
The threat of violence by Antifa at UC Berkeley also led to the cancelation of a planned on-campus premiere of a documentary film this writer executive-produced, America Under Siege: Antifa, during Yiannopoulos's planned Free Speech Week at the school.
"This landmark victory for free expression means UC Berkeley can no longer wantonly treat conservative students as second-class members of its community while ignoring the guaranteed protections of the First Amendment," according to YAF. Under the settlement's provisions, UC Berkeley will no longer be able to impose a 3:00 p.m. curfew on conservative speech.
"Further, the policy that allowed Berkeley administrators to charge conservative students $20,000 for security to host Ben Shapiro-an amount three times greater than the fee charged to leftist students to host liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor-is gone," according to YAF. "YAF and UC Berkeley agreed to a fee schedule that treats all students equally. Unless students are handling money or serving alcohol at an event, the security fee will be zero."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/272160/conservatives-triumph-over-free-speech-hating-uc-matthew-vadum
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