We will enforce the law, especially against universities across this country. The anti-Semitic protests we've seen at universities will end next year. [00:00:18] If you violently protest, if you threaten your fellow students, you will be arrested. You will be expelled. And if you're a foreigner, you will be deported. Well, there he is, Senator Ted Cruz, whose state of Texas really did try [00:00:37] to shut down free speech on their college campuses, including trying to ban free speech after 10 p.m.. So a judge looked at that, shot it down, and he shot it down in the most epic way possible. [00:00:53] Senate Bill two 972, which is the Campus Protection Act in Texas, was passed during Texas legislative session earlier this year and amended a 2019 law that had reinforced First Amendment free speech rights on college campuses, imposing a new mandate that state universities adopt new restrictions [00:01:12] to prevent disruption and ensure community safety in the wake of the protests about the Israel-hamas War. Among these restrictions listed in the Senate bill were a ban on expressive activities, defined as any speech or expressive conduct protected. [00:01:29] Protected by the First Amendment between 10 p.m. And 8 a.m. Throughout the year, like a parking restriction. And there. And three prohibitions that applied during the last two weeks of a term banning inviting guest speakers to campus, amplifying sound and engaging in expressive activities by using drums [00:01:48] or other percussive instruments. Janke. I'll give you some free speech. You are free to tell me what you think of this. So guys, drums aren't the issue. There's already noise restrictions. No, this was so broad that if you wore a hat [00:02:04] with a perceived political message on it. Band. Op ed in the middle of the night. Band. Breaking news by the college newspaper. After 10:00. Band. Chatting with your roommates or hallmates on campus after 10:00 [00:02:22] about political things. If someone didn't like that political speech band. Okay, that's insane. And nowhere near America. And yet again, you saw it in the Ted Cruz speech, and this law expressly talked about you're not allowed to criticize Israel. [00:02:40] What is this? What level of insanity have we gotten to? Where we're going to arrest people and take away their freedom of speech? First of all, on anything related to speech, the First Amendment is not unclear, right? But but secondly, on criticizing a foreign government. [00:02:58] Ludicrous. Ludicrous. Well, so you can imagine that once these things came out, the bill's initial passage was, of course, met with intense backlash from student groups, [00:03:13] from college papers, student organizations at both UT Austin, you know, most especially and, and Dallas at UT Dallas. So they literally these students brought fire. They brought the foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Fire, a nonpartizan [00:03:33] free speech advocacy nonprofit that filed a lawsuit on behalf of these students. And they stated that the bill was a shocking prohibition of protected speech at public universities that granted unconstitutionally broad powers to Texas universities, [00:03:49] giving them the power to discipline students at nighttime for wearing a hat with a political message, playing music, writing an op ed, attending candlelight vigils, even just chatting with friends. They also noted that UT Dallas an independent student newspaper, [00:04:08] The Retrograde. It tells you anything about the independence would suffer. Much of its staffs news gathering and reporting necessarily happens after Texas is 10 p.m. Free speech cutoff, and the student journalists worried about the risk of being shut down simply for posting breaking news. [00:04:25] As it happens, as retrograde editor in chief Gregorio Gutierrez put it, and US District Judge David Alan Ezra, boy did he agree, putting a preliminary injunction to bar the state from enforcing this at any UT campus. [00:04:42] This is what he said. The First Amendment does not have a bedtime of 10 p.m.. The burden is on the government to prove that its actions are narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest. It has not done so. Ezra went on to say the legislature had granted universities the ability [00:05:01] to weaponize the policy against speech that disagrees with a contrary to the purposes of the First Amendment and the government most certainly failed to show that the law was narrowly tailored because it bans all expressive activity for ten hours a day. I mean, first of all, we both said this in the meeting this morning. [00:05:20] We were floored by the eloquence of the First Amendment. Does not have a bedtime of 10 p.m. I mean, it's both a layup and it really sends it home for me. Yeah, he's a Reagan appointed judge. And, he's like, the First Amendment is perfectly clear. [00:05:38] And if you want to take away First Amendment rights, you have to meet an extraordinary burden here. Before the case even got started, he's like, nope, I'm stopping this law. We're going to have the case. But while we're doing it, you're not allowed to do this because there's already overwhelming proof that you're violating the First Amendment. [00:05:56] And and you have no justification for it. And this is absurd. So, no, this is not to go into effect. And so it means that when the actual case happens there, that Texas is very likely to lose here. And guys. What happened? [00:06:11] What happened to freedom of speech? I mean, I swear it was just like a minute ago that you were doing the campaign. And your central issue for Trump was freedom of speech. - Don't cancel freedom of speech. - Yeah. I mean, how is this not cancel culture? How is this not taking away freedom of speech? [00:06:28] They take away speech for ten hours out of the day. And what is that? Okay. All right. I guess we'll have to criticize Israel or Trump or whoever or Biden or anyone, I don't know. Well, they're not going to apply it if you criticize Biden. They're only going to apply it if you criticize the right wing [00:06:45] or Trump or a different country that they're getting paid by. Okay. So if you do that, you're going to have to do it in the morning, right? You can't wear your MAGA hat at midnight either, I guess. Yeah. Technically you're not supposed to wear a Maga hat either. My guess is they're going to let that one slide. [00:07:00] But if you're going to do it, maybe the afternoon hit the sweet spot of free speech. Okay. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.