A professor who took over a right-leaning campus think tank after his predecessor faced termination for activities related to the Renegade Institute for Liberty got bad news from a federal court: Come back when you’ve actually been punished for wrongthink.
It was a stunning reversal for historian Daymon Johnson, whose First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against California’s Kern Community College District, alleging far-reaching chilling of his speech, received the green light in November, prompting an emergency meeting of the trustees.
U.S. District Judge Kirk Sheriff rejected the findings and recommendations by Magistrate Judge Christopher Baker and dismissed Johnson’s lawsuit for lack of legal standing.
He hasn’t adequately alleged “actual or imminent” injury from KCCD’s enforcement of state and system codes against Johnson, including “diversity, equity and inclusion competencies,” based on his “political and social” views, the Sept. 23 ruling says.
Johnson’s pre-enforcement challenge is based on how KCCD treated fellow Bakersfield College historian and former RIFL leader Matthew Garrett, who agreed to leave in July with $2.4 million and a clean record. […]
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