Emma Whitford
Inside Higher Ed
Twelve attorneys general have joined Florida in asking the Supreme Court to uphold a state law that would limit what public college and university professors can say about race and gender in the classroom.
The law, called the Stop WOKE Act, was passed in 2022 but quickly blocked by a lower court and then struck down by the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in July. In his petition to the highest court, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asks the justices to determine “whether public university professors have a special status under the First Amendment, such that the speech they express in the course of their official duties, unlike the official-duty speech of all other public employees, is protected by the First Amendment from regulation by their employer, the state.”
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