Student groups to sue UC Berkeley for canceling Ann Coulter’s speech

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Breitbart:

April 23 (UPI) — A group of students at the University of California at Berkeley are preparing to sue the school after the cancellation of conservative pundit Ann Coulter’s speech. Coulter’s visit was originally scheduled for Thursday of last week.

 

On Wednesday, school officials informed the Berkeley College Republicans and the nonpartisan Bridge USA, which coordinated the event, they had decided to cancel the event because of security concerns. Instead, the afternoon of May 2 was offered as an “appropriate, protectable venue” at the public university, but Coulter said she wasn’t available on that date.

 

“We are drafting a lawsuit and hope that Berkeley will do the right thing in the face of national pressure,” Harmeet Dhillon told the East Bay Times on Saturday. “It’s pretty clear. There is a First Amendment right of student groups to have equal access to university facilities. The university can’t impose artificial discriminatory rules on differing viewpoints that it doesn’t impose on other viewpoints.”

 

On Friday, Dhillon wrote separate letters to UC Berkeley’s Interim Vice Chancellor Stephen Sutton and chief attorney Christopher Patti. If the commentator is not allowed to give a speech Thursday, she warned, Dhillon said she would file a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of the student group. The students’ constitutional right to free speech are being violated, she claimed.

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The new free speech movement.

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how berkeley birthed the right

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By:Pat Buchanan | May 05, 2017

In December 1964, a Silver Age of American liberalism, to rival the Golden Age of FDR and the New Deal, seemed to be upon us.

Barry Goldwater had been crushed in a 44-state landslide and the GOP reduced to half the size of the Democratic Party, with but 140 seats in the House and 32 in the Senate.

The Supreme Court of Chief Justice Earl Warren, the most liberal in history, was on a roll, and LBJ was virtually unopposed as he went about ramming his Great Society through Congress.

The left had it all. But then they blew it, beginning at Berkeley.

Protests, sit-ins, the holding of cops hostage in patrol cars—went on for weeks to force the University of California, Berkeley, to grant "free speech," and then "filthy speech" rights everywhere on campus.

Students postured as revolutionaries at the barricades, and the Academic Senate, consisting of all tenured faculty, voted 824-115 to support all Free Speech Movement demands, while cravenly declining to vote to condemn the tactics used.   https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/how-berkeley-birthed-the-right/