Congressmen take aim at Betsy DeVos over censorship at Evangelical Liberty University

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'Given that Liberty's violations are public and longstanding, we are left to conclude that the Department's failure to act is deliberate and that it is only interested in enforcing free speech policies against institutions it deems unfriendly,' Reps. Levin and Raskin wrote in a letter.

accused the Department of Education of acting to"restrict the free expression of ideas" and violating students' civil rights.

"Unfortunately, despite Executive Order 13864, which directs the Department to ensure institutions promote free inquiry, you have failed to act in cases of suppression of ideas that involve the administration's political allies, such as Liberty University," the congressmen wrote. In their letter to DeVos, Levin and Raskin cited the university's code of conduct—which they alleged limits students' freedoms of expression and associationrelationships and restrictions the types of media students may access as exactly the kind of block on"free inquiry" the order should protect.

"Given that Liberty's violations are public and longstanding, we are left to conclude that the Department's failure to act is deliberate and that it is only interested in enforcing free speech policies against institutions it deems unfriendly," Levin and Raskin wrote in their letter to DeVos.

 

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