White House Spotlights Campus Speech Involvement

• Conservatives say free speech being stifled

• Scholars dispute “crisis” claim

A White House forum highlighted concerns about free speech on college campuses, while scholars told Bloomberg Law they were skeptical of the Trump administration’s involvement.

The “academic campus left is shutting down discourse and dialogue, and this administration is standing on the side of free speech,” Charlie Kirk, who interviewedPresident Donald Trump as part of the “Generation Next” summit, told Bloomberg Law at the March 22 event. Kirk is the executive director of Turning Point USA, a conservative organization.

The Department of Justice has continued to ...