A Republican student group at UC Berkeley filed a lawsuit this week over the university’s decision to cancel a speech planned for Thursday by the caustic conservative commentator Ann Coulter. The complaint in U.S. District Court in San Francisco by the Berkeley College Republicans, joined by the Young America’s Foundation, alleges that UC Berkeley “will not permit the expression of disfavored conservative viewpoints at desirable places and times on the UC Berkeley campus.”It's an explosive accusation but also an unconvincing one. We don’t believe UC Berkeley is imposing a sinister ideological litmus test on speakers who come to the campus. Then, after initially suggesting that Coulter’s speech could be rescheduled for September, university officials proposed that she speak on May 2. Coulter says she may appear on the Berkeley campus Thursday regardless.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 26, 2017 11:00 UTC