A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against a California college’s speech code that it used to justify censoring anti-communist posters generated by conservative students.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) won the court order in its lawsuit against the school, Clovis Community College, on behalf of three students from a campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) who wanted to criticize authoritarianism.
In November 2021, club members Alejandro Flores, Daniel Flores, and Juliette Colunga obtained permission from campus administrators to hang three posters on bulletin boards inside the academic buildings of their school. The posters promoted freedom and listed the death tolls of communist regimes, associating communism with the “blind arrogance of the left.”…