toastykitten | just democrats doing democratic stuff

Proposed law SB-1287 targeting campus speech. Intercept has the rundown. CAIR-CA has a factsheet running down the objections to the bill - It attempts to censor and chill the 1st amendment rights to free speech and assembly of students on California’s campuses. This bill will place unconstitutional restrictions on students’ right to free expression based on their viewpoint and content alone, which fails the strict scrutiny standard required by the first amendment.

This was back in June, but LA mayor Karen Bass called for a mask ban in protests just before coming down with COVID herself. I don't know where we're at with that but mask bans have now been enacted in Nassau County, NY, and NC. Jews for Mask Rights has an open letter for the NY legislature.