The school, in a Tuesday letter, said that all of the original charges, including the one still leveled against Dailyda, were related to the Facebook post and not the Trump Zoom picture that started the chain of events leading to the Facebook post. "As a public university, Stockton must tread carefully on metaphorical political rhetoric; we hope that this is not the hill Stockton wants to die on." He left the group chat, but later published the Facebook post that would lead to the disciplinary charges against him. 'As a public university, Stockton must tread carefully on metaphorical political rhetoric; we hope that this is not the hill Stockton wants to die on.' FIRE has also argued that the school cannot legally punish Dailyda for the comments another person wrote on his Facebook post.

Source: Fox News August 12, 2020 23:21 UTC