On September 15, 2023, the Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) 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). SLF argued that the Founders saw free discussion of public affairs as a core purpose of the First Amendment, and that university speech codes like Virginia Tech’s threaten that debate.
Read the full brief below:
