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College Republicans Sue over Florida Chapter Deactivation
The UF College Republicans claim the university violated their First Amendment rights by deactivating their chapter following allegations of antisemitic conduct, including a Nazi salute photo.
- On Monday, the University of Florida College Republicans filed a federal lawsuit against interim president Donald Landry, seeking to restore campus facility access and claiming the deactivation violates their First Amendment rights.
- The university shut down the student organization last week after two members performed a Nazi salute and another wrote in a group chat that Adolf Hitler "didn't do enough."
- Plaintiffs argue the deactivation occurred 48 hours after the chapter hosted GOP gubernatorial candidate James Fishback, contending the "contested expression" amounted to protected political speech and did not constitute a threat.
- Attorney Anthony Sabatini, representing the chapter, filed the lawsuit seeking an injunction, while Gabe Guidarini of the Ohio College Republican Federation claimed the Florida Federation of College Republicans lacks authority to disband the local chapter.
- This incident marks the second time this month a Florida public university has taken action against a Republican student group, following an earlier investigation at Florida International University in Miami into racist and antisemitic slurs.
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Source: seb_ra / Getty It seems like every couple of weeks at most, I’m presented with an opportunity to ask this question: If the Republican Party isn’t currently the party of racists and Nazis, why is it so many Republicans, young and old, self-identify as racists and Nazis? Let’s take, for example, Florida’s Nazi problem. Earlier this month, we reported that the secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily…
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