On September 18, 2023, Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Speech First’s challenge to Virginia Tech’s bias incident policy and Bias Intervention and Response Team (BIRT). AFPF argued that the government cannot excuse burdens on speech just because it stops short of punishment, since the process itself can be the punishment.
Read the full brief below:
