Professors’ Free Speech Challenge to Idaho Abortion Law Is Nixed

An Idaho statute that university professors say criminalizes discussing pro-abortion viewpoints in the classroom can remain in place after a federal judge ruled the teachers don’t have standing to challenge it.

Because the Attorney General, who enforces the statute, says it doesn’t impact classroom speech and he wouldn’t prosecute the professors, “the Court must stay in its lane and dismiss this suit, Judge David C. Nye said Tuesday.

The suit, in the US District Court for the District of Idaho, challenged the constitutionality of Idaho’s 2021 “No Public Funds for Abortion Act,” which says “no public funds” shall be ...