The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against former Houston Community College trustee...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against former HCC Trustee Dave Wilson in a 9-0 vote, deciding that his colleagues decision to verbally censure him in 2018 did not deny him his First Amendment rights.The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against former Houston Community College trustee Dave Wilson, finding that he didn’t have an actionable First Amendment claim when his colleagues verbally censured him in 2018.
The court firmly ended Wilson’s legal battle in a 9-0 vote and sided with the community college, the majority of whose board members reprimanded the then-District II trustee after Wilson publicly criticized his colleagues’ votes. “The First Amendment surely promises an elected representative like Mr. Wilson the right to speak freely on questions of government policy,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the opinion. “But just as surely, it cannot be used as a weapon to silence other representatives seeking to do the same.”
The provocative trustee was censured after he lashed out at his colleagues and HCC administrators on issues ranging from the system’s presence
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