- U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act,” which is designed to remove woke indoctrination from higher education.
- Walker wrote: “Defendants argue that, under this Act, professors enjoy ‘academic freedom’ so long as they express only those viewpoints of which the State approves. This is positively dystopian.”
- The judge added that “our professors are critical to a healthy democracy” and referred to them as “priests of democracy” who “shed light on challenging ideas.”
- “We need to start getting rid of these repulsive judges — or giving them IQ tests,” political commentator David Reaboi tweeted. “This clown is dumber than dirt.”
- “Ah yes, the American university, a flourishing marketplace of ideas,” law professor Adrian Vermeule tweeted sarcastically. “‘Priests of democracy’ is correct, although not in the sense the judge intended.”
