The University of Colorado Boulder violated the First Amendment by imposing sanctions on a visiting professor who went viral online. The professor, John Eastman, addressed Trump supporters on January 6 and went viral on Twitter and Facebook.
Critics of the professor’s speech on January 6 claim that he “incited” the rioters. However, the professor’s speech does not qualify as unlawful incitement under the provisions of the First Amendment.
“The First Amendment is clear: A public university cannot cancel a professor’s courses, withdraw his role in organizing campus discussions, and preemptively decline to renew his contract because of public anger over his extramural political expression,” said free speech group FIRE in a statement.
“But that’s exactly what the University of Colorado Boulder did to visiting professor John Eastman after he gave a three-minute speech at then-President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 rally,” FIRE added.
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