First Amendment Not a ‘Weapon’ to Silence, Justices Say (1)

Weighing in on “cancel culture,” the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Texas community college board can censure members for their speech without running afoul of First Amendment protections.

In a unanimous decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court said that a former Houston Community College System Board member couldn’t sue the board after it censured him for his speech critical of the body and other actions, including hiring a private investigator to check up on another member.

The First Amendment “cannot be used as a weapon to silence other representatives seeking to do the same,” Gorsuch wrote in ...