Anti-Sessions Protesters Say They Were Excluded From His Speech, But Is It True?

Nick Kangadis | September 27, 2017
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Students and professors gathered in front of Bernard P. McDonough Hall at Georgetown University Law School in Washington D.C. on Tuesday to -- ironically -- protest Attorney General Jeff Sessions' remarks about free speech on college campuses.

Law students and professors stood on the steps of McDonough Hall, some with tape over their mouths and Black Lives Matter t-shirts, chanting at times “we have questions for Jeff Sessions.” The protesters claimed that they found the Sessions appearance hypocritical because they were excluded from attending the event for not being “conservative” or sympathetic to the stances of both Sessions and the organizer of the event, Professor Randy Barnett, Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution at Georgetown Law.

But, according to the Media Relations department at Georgetown Law, the host of an event determines the guest list, along with certain other criteria.

In an email received by MRCTV, the criteria for attending the event was as follows:

For this event, The Center for the Constitution invited students from across the Law Center who have in the past signed up to attend at least one event convened by the Center.

Additionally, event organizer and Center Director Professor Randy Barnett, invited students from his classes (Con Law II and Recent Books on the Constitution Seminar).

Invitations were also extended to the Center’s scholars and a small number of guests for Professor Barnett and the Department of Justice.

Does that mean that everyone who attended the event had to support Sessions? 

ABC News reporter and producer Mike Levine released this tweet exposing that protesters were inside the hall while the Sessions event was ongoing:

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Was the real motivation behind this protest an excuse to combat speech that they don’t agree with? At a free speech event? Ponder the possibility.

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