On January 18, 2022, the Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit supporting Speech First’s appeal in its challenge to Virginia Tech’s speech policies. SLF argued that the Founders saw free discussion of public affairs as a central purpose of the First Amendment, and that policies punishing “biased” speech threaten exactly that kind of debate.
Read the full brief below:
