Four months after being overwhelmingly passed in the House, the Restore Campus Free Speech Act has become law. House Bill 527 is bipartisan ‘campus free speech’ legislation that strengthens standards for free expression in our state university system and mandates that all public universities “ensure the fullest degree of intellectual freedom and free expression.” HB527 […]
Bipartisan legislation passed the House on Wednesday strengthening standards for free expression in the state university system and mandating that all public universities “ensure the fullest degree of intellectual freedom and free expression.” Currently, there are no statutes addressing free speech for the University of North Carolina (UNC) institutions. House Bill 527, modeled after the Goldwater Institute‘s policy report Campus […]
On March 7, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest announced that he would propose a bill be introduced this year that he’s calling the “Campus Free Expression Act.” The legislation would require a discipline policy for any students who interrupt the free expression of others. Forest is working on a draft of the bill with the help of Stanley Kurtz, […]
Remember all outrage a month or so ago from opponents of Senate Bill 2? The new law, which you can read about at length in an earlier post, prevents certain state employees from being forced to perform same-sex marriages against their will. Partisan journalists, left-wing bloggers, progressive activists, out-of-state social media types, liberal legislators, and even […]
“Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority.” — Dr. Cornell West Today the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to reaffirm its support for Senate Bill 2, bipartisan legislation that protects the First Amendment rights of Magistrates and Register […]
There’s nothing quite more thrilling for state government geeks (like us) than the annual publication of the General Assembly’s Summaries of Substantive Ratified Legislation. This weedy tome, of which only a few hundred are printed, is produced at the end of each legislative session by the good folks of the Research Division. The Research Division is a non-partisan central office […]
[youtube_sc url=”http://youtu.be/CXsBCzozR10″ width=”590″ modestbranding=”1″ autohide=”1″ fs=”1″ border=”1″ hd=”1″] With the U.S. Senate (including our own Senator, Kay Hagan) attempting to limit free-speech protections of the First Amendment, the General Assembly, by contrast, has given student organizations in North Carolina further protection against harassment from university administrators — who might seek to strip them of their official […]