The Justices decline to resolve a circuit split on campus ‘bias’ inquiries.

"Given the number of schools with bias response teams, this Court eventually will need to resolve the split over a student’s right to challenge such programs," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case on college programs which a conservative group claimed chills free speech and pushes students to be fearful to express an unpopular or controversial viewpoint.

Dissenting Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said the court ultimately will need to intervene on a controversial free speech issue at universities across the country.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving whether bias-response teams created at universities chill speech on campus.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote Monday that the Supreme Court should not let “confusion persist” regarding students’ free speech rights on

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a review of campus bias response teams Monday following claims that they suppress free speech. The justices declined the petition for a writ of certiorari from Speech First, a group that aims to safeguard free speech on campuses, according to the court’s opinion.

The Supreme Court is turning back a challenge from conservative college students who say their freedom of speech is violated by a university program for reporting allegations of bias.

Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the court's decision not to hear the appeal. Thomas said he would have taken it up to resolve a split among lower federal appeals courts in handling legal challenges to college bias ...

The Supreme Court on Monday added one new case, involving the double jeopardy clause and the Hobbs Act, to its docket for the 2025-26 term. The justices opted not to intervene in a First Amendment challenge to a “bias response” teams on a university campus,

The advocacy group Speech First is trying to shut down "bias response" programs at Indiana University and elsewhere they say chill students' speech.