Tag: lawfare

Increasingly, the overbearing and sometimes violent effort by the left to squelch dissenting views is being met by legal action, and increasingly it appears that legal action is producing positive results. In just the last few days, we have just a few examples:

• Lindsay Shepherd sues Wilfrid Laurier University, claiming ‘attacks’ have ‘rendered her unemployable in academia’
• SPLC agrees to $3.3 million settlement over its ‘Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists’
• Washington University agrees to pay $122,500 to settle a lawsuit from conservative students
• Jordan Peterson’s threatened lawsuit forces Pennsylvania University professor to back down over tweet calling him an incel [involuntary celibate], a misogynist, and a white nationalist
• Judge: City officials can be held liable in Confederate statue lawsuit

The last story is especially interesting. The city councillors of Charlottesville are being sued for their decision to remove two Confederate statues. The judge ruled that these councillors could be personally liable should they lose the case, especially because their action appears to directly violate a state law.

In the nine-page letter, Moore says that he thinks the council “was acting beyond its authority” and that it was not a “legitimate” legislative activity when the council voted to remove the statues, in contravention with a state law that prohibits the disturbance or removal of war memorials.

The left has for decades been able to violate laws like this with impunity. All of the cases above are examples of that kind of nonchalance to the law and to the truth. In the past no one would challenge them on their acts, and they would get away with it. It appears now that the right is beginning to finally push back, and with some success.