Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III visited the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. today in order to give a lecture on Freedom of Speech.
The attorney general–or perhaps the law school administration–has a somewhat picayune concept of that notion, however, as over 100 student protesters were barred from attending the event.
Those students had initially signed up for the event, and then received invites, only to later have those invitations revoked.
We all just wanted to hear what he had to say and let him know where we differ from his opinions.
As Sessions read prepared remarks about plans to “defend free speech,” as attorney general, some students managed to silently protest him inside the auditorium by duct-taping their mouths shut.
Meanwhile, hundreds of students and dozens of law professors protested the speech as well–standing outside the building with signs and chanting through bullhorns as Sessions spoke.
During a question-and-answer session after the speech, Sessions was asked to address those protests–aimed at addressing police brutality and racism–occurring during the national anthem at NFL games. »