13 states urge Supreme Court to limit professor free speech protections

FRANKFORT – Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has announced he and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall are leading a 13-state coalition to stop public university professors from hiding behind ‘academic freedom’ even if they spew antisemitic hate speech. In a brief filed Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court, Coleman asked the Justices to rule that university professors do not have special, sacrosanct First Amendment rights not applicable to any other public employee. The First Amendment does not protect speech made by state employees in their official capacity. This action supports Coleman’s previous efforts at defending a state law directing Kentucky’s public universities to combat the spread of antisemitism.

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