re: University Of Southern California Valedictorian Canceled Over Anti Israel Instagram Link

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Yes there is - you created a public forum, a public event, and obligated yourself to provide designated personnel an opportunity to speak - in public, to the public - and then, based on speech, you took it away. That's a First Amendment issue. It's called conspiracy to violate rights.

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Were you stoned every day of US government class in high school?

In case you were, here's your constitutionally protected right to free speech:

"CONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Furthermore, aside from the very obvious fact that government in no way, shape or form was involved in this, since USC is a private university, they have every right to tell the girl to go pound sand. She has absolutely ZERO constitutional right to give that speech.

Only an utter moron would claim that she had a constitutionally protected right to give the speech.