The U.S. Supreme Court on March 3 turned away a free speech group’s challenge to so-called bias response teams it claims unconstitutionally chill speech on campus.
The Court denied the petition in Speech First Inc. v. Whitten without comment. At least four of the justices must vote for a petition for it to advance to the oral argument stage.
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the denial of the petition. Justice Samuel Alito also indicated he would have granted the petition.
The petition against Indiana University President Pamela Whitten asked the Court to halt enforcement of the school’s bias incident reporting policy….