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To: Sam who wrote (401372)	3/2/2019 11:17:27 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 540856

Kim jong-Trump

To: Sam who wrote (401372)	3/3/2019 2:16:40 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 540856

Just thank god we have real power in the house now to defend ourselves with. <,enius. Pure genius. Trump promises executive order that could strip colleges of funding if they don’t ‘support free speech’ washingtonpost.com excerpt: A new executive order from the White House will aim to make federal research funding for colleges and universities contingent on their support for “free speech,” President Trump said Saturday. The announcement, during Trump’s address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, appeared to target complaints by some university critics that institutions of higher education stifle right-wing viewpoints. “If they want our dollars, and we give it to them by the billions, they’ve got to allow people like Hayden and many great young people, and old people, to speak,” Trump said, bringing onstage a young conservative, Hayden Williams, who was physically attacked last month while tabling for a conservative organization at the University of California at Berkeley. The executive order, Trump said, would “require colleges to support free speech if they want federal research” money. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. [....] Other experts said Trump’s proposal raised serious First Amendment concerns. “Somebody would have to decide which universities were not supporting free speech on campus,” said Catherine Ross, a professor in constitutional law at George Washington University. “Some group of Washington civil servants — or maybe even worse, political appointees — would be looking at charges of speech discrimination at various colleges and universities, and labeling them as either acceptable in terms of free speech or not acceptable. And that … is a government interference in speech.” What’s more, she added, Trump’s policy could inadvertently disqualify many religious academic institutions from receiving federal research funding, to the extent that their religious beliefs prohibit certain views or speakers on campus. continues at the link