By james art 
In November, the Republican governor of Louisiana Jeff Landri publicly directed to Professor of Law at the State University of Louisiana in Baton Rouge for claiming to make meander – but short – in a class for students who voted for Donald Trump. Landry posted on social media a video from an unknown source claiming to show Nicholas Bryner who tells the students: “If you voted for Trump about the idea that you don’t like it personally, but you like his policies, I just want you to think for a message that sends to other people. ”
The governor announced online: “This professor denied 76 million Americans who voted for President @realdonaldrump” and called on the institution to punish Bryner. It is unclear if LSU has ever done so – Bricter and the University have not commented on the result, while Daniel Tyrone, president of the LSU Bat Bat Bat Bat Bat Bat Bat, said he had not heard of any discipline of a Bryner who has a mandate.
A lawyer representing another LSU Baton Rouge law professor says her client has already been stopped by teaching, waiting for an investigation into his own class comments. Ken Levy, the distinguishing professor of Holt B. Harrison’s law in the LSU flagship campus, had pointed out both Trump and Landri in his lecture – which was also recorded.
Levi, who also has a mandate, received a suspension letter on January 17 by a human resource employee, according to a copy provided by his lawyer Jill Kraft. It says: “You are released from your teaching responsibilities, in force immediately, in anticipation of an investigation of complaints from students from inappropriate statements made in your class in the first week of spring semester 2025”
What were Levy’s actual comments? On January 14, he explained his rules on the course of administration of criminal justice students – including a ban on class enrollment. However, a record was made; A student who supports Landri has provided it InsideBut it is not clear where it came from. Kraft said students with classroom accommodation are allowed to enroll.
Levi told her students that “some of you may have heard that one of my colleagues is already in the national news,” Bryner’s citing situation. “Honestly, when I forward my nonsense to the governor,” Levy said. “I have no problem in principle.” He said that ‘would like to become a national celebrity [student laughter drowns out a moment of the recording] Based on what I said in this class, “Fuck the Governor!”
“Departed from the context, it may look like a little ass,” Levi continued. “… So, you have no right to save me.” He said that if the students are referring to everyone, “I could put you in prison” – a joke, Kraft said, because it was a criminal class that was dealing with questions about who had prison people.
Later in the Levy class, he refers to Trump. Talking about how criminal law and the procedure have changed over time, Levi said, “We are now about to move to autocracy, so many of this can be controversial in about two weeks.” He said, “Probably You heard that I was a big left -handed, I am a big Democrat, I was devastated – I couldn’t, you are already preparing to say in your ratings: “I don’t need his political commentary.” No, you need my political comment, you over everyone else. ”
Levy also said, “I don’t know what Trump is doing, I don’t care what he’s doing, if they kill me, they’ll kill me … I just tuned the news and – it’s too depressing and those of you who like it, you know, do you What is wrong with you? “There was still a laugh of students.
Kraft said he did not know which specific comments were complained and the university did not provide any more specifics. She filed a temporary deterrent order and a request for disposal in the State District Court requesting to return a tax in the classroom immediately. In it, CRAFT claims that “a student complained to the governor and, in turn, appealed to the LSU administration.” Lands and LSU speakers did not respond to InsideRequests for interviewing or answering written questions this week.
Craft said Inside That “if we are really in a place where we do the second place the pedagogy of the students by law, how he uses humor and creates a stable debate in class, then we as a society are in a terrible position. “According to her, this” signals a dangerous path to pure censorship and takes away academic freedom in its purest form. ”
The LSU Black Law Students Association made an Instagram statement calling for left -wing and university apology. The group said Levy was “one of the few teachers dedicated to teaching criminal law and empowering students to understand and challenge systematic injustice.”
A group of students protested against Levi treatment on Tuesday in front of the main entrance of the Faculty of Law. Jack Harrison, an assistant in professional practice at the Legal School, was there. He had only seen a copy of the comments, but he said, “I don’t really see the basis for the actions … that were taken against him.”
“Law teachers criticize everyone and it is probably such a greater criticism to be directed to those who are currently in power, regardless of the party, regardless of political persuasion,” Harrison said. He said that law teachers should look “with a critical eye to the laws they teach.”
Levy remains free to publish while he is banned by the classroom. In October, he published an article on a review of the law entitled “The First Amendment to Education: Can Public Schools discipline the Faculty of Political Hate?”