{"id":2242521,"date":"2024-05-11T16:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-justice-alito-says-freedom-of-speech-dangerously-declining-on-college-campuses\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:11:54","slug":"supreme-court-justice-alito-says-freedom-of-speech-dangerously-declining-on-college-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-justice-alito-says-freedom-of-speech-dangerously-declining-on-college-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Justice Alito warns of declining freedom of speech on college campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-justice-alito-says-freedom-of-speech-dangerously-declining-on-college-campuses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2242521&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Justice Samuel Alito addressed the\u200b declining support for freedom of speech on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-threat-is-real-and-upon-us\/\" title=\"The China Threat is Real and Upon Us\">college campuses<\/a>\u2064 during a commencement ceremony at the Franciscan University\u200d of\u200b Steubenville.\u200b He highlighted the \u200bchallenges to fundamental principles, particularly in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-files-lawsuit-against-santa-monica-to-prevent-unlawful-police-response-at-future-protests\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter Files Lawsuit Against Santa Monica To Prevent \u2018Unlawful\u2019 Police Response At Future Protests\">recent protests<\/a> regarding Israel&#8217;s\u200b conflict with Hamas. Alito \u2064emphasized\u200d the importance of upholding freedom of speech and \u2062religion in an increasingly contentious environment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Supreme Court<\/a> Justice Samuel Alito <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/justice-alito-warns-declining-support-freedom-speech-college-campuses-rcna151817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>addressed<\/a> students at a commencement ceremony for the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic college in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ohio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Ohio<\/a>, by saying that support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/freedom-of-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>freedom of speech<\/a> is \u201cdeclining dangerously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He appeared to point the remark at colleges\u2019 response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-to-ucla-how-19-universities-have-responded-to-campus-protests\/\" title=\"From Columbia to UCLA: 19 Universities' Responses to Campus Protests\">recent campus protests<\/a> that were in reaction to Israel\u2019s war against Hamas in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now in the world outside this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pick-a-damn-side\/\" title=\"Choose a Side!\">beautiful campus<\/a>, troubled waters are slamming against some of our most fundamental principles,\u201d Alito said. \u201cSupport for freedom of speech is declining dangerously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery few colleges live up to that ideal. This place is one of them \u2026 but things are not that way out there in the broader world,\u201d Alito said.<\/p>\n<p>Alito also warned of attacks on freedom of religion to the religious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>college<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom of religion is also imperiled,\u201d he told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lgbt-activists-invent-another-gender-neutral-term-for-latinos\/\" title=\"LGBT Activists Invent Another \u2018Gender-Neutral\u2019 Term for Latinos\">graduating students<\/a>. \u201cWhen you venture out into the world, you may well find yourself in a job, or community or a social setting when you will be pressured to endorse ideas you don\u2019t believe, or to abandon core beliefs. It will be up to you to stand firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alito is the second-longest tenured Supreme Court associate justice and was one of two justices appointed to the court along with Chief Justice John Roberts by former President George W. Bush. <\/p>\n<p>The conservative justice <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.style.yahoo.com\/news\/leaked-draft-opinion-appears-show-012811660.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANCvbrB6IqXgtlFVCDUnclHWafTD_XC34XOrHmGBHq3RUyx7WOhT7qoHIcPxluqIE17owGoNW2aLtABMfL41_g-D7S0kfGJ5qtaWnmjr5SoFdzIrHCItOma2o9yI1NY3BfP9cHKK3IwrE21Jg_6xkKAGwxhP16pLiDp8IuZiar1O\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>made<\/a> major waves in 2022 when his draft opinion of the court\u2019s decision in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em> overturning the precedent set in <em>Roe v. Wade <\/em>was leaked to the press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While usually out of the public eye, Alito wasn\u2019t the only Supreme Court justice who made an appearance outside of Washington, D.C., this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Clarence Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3000689\/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-calls-out-detractors-targeting-his-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>recently<\/a> spoke out about criticism aimed at his family at a judicial conference on Friday night, saying that there were \u201cnastiness and lies\u201d directed toward him and his wife.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Franciscan University of Steubenville&#8217;s commencement, Justice Alito cautioned about the dangerous decline in freedom of speech, possibly referring to colleges&#8217; reactions to protests against Israel&#8217;s conflict with Hamas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2242522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP23209754329644.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP23209754329644.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}