{"id":12375,"date":"2023-08-15T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12375"},"modified":"2023-08-14T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:09:10","slug":"judge-interjects-to-reject-notion-that-universities-are-bastions-of-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=12375","title":{"rendered":"Judge interjects to reject notion that universities are &#8216;bastions of free speech&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=23760\"> Courtney McLain <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ninth Circuit Court Judge Milan Smith interjected during attorney Daniel Ortner\u2019s remarks with a jest on the state of higher education in America, as seen in a recent clip uploaded to X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An attorney for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Ortner is seen presenting an oral argument defending conservative students\u2019 free speech rights against California\u2019s Clovis Community College. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis court, and the Supreme Court, have repeatedly said that universities are bastions for free speech. They are important places for freedom of expression and debate \u2026\u201d states Ortner&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDoes it matter if that\u2019s not true anymore?\u201d Judge Smith jokingly interrupted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney McLain Ninth Circuit Court Judge Milan Smith interjected during attorney Daniel Ortner\u2019s remarks with a jest on the state of higher education in America, as seen in a recent clip uploaded to X. An attorney for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Ortner is seen presenting an oral argument defending conservative students\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12376,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions\/12376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}