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Court maintains the suspension of LSU professor who vulgar criticized Trump and Louisiana Governor

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – On Tuesday, a court of appeal by Louisiana has the suspension of an LSU professor in law that criticized, Gov. Jeff Landry and President Donald Trump with the help of vulgar language.

While he taught a constitutional legal class last month, regular prof. Ken Levy “F (Asterisk) (Asterisk) (Asterisk) stated the Governor” and used the expletive to talk about Trump and students who supported him.

Within a few days, the LSU Levy administration informed that he was suspended from his educational responsibilities “pending an investigation into complaints from students of inappropriate statements in your class,” said a lawsuit that was filed last week.

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The ruling of the first circuit of the First Circuit Court of Appeal last week the judge of the Donald Johnson district of East Baton Rouge destroyed that LSU immediately recovers the levy for his educational role. This would require a “full evidence -powerful hearing”, the Court of Appeal ruled.

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A hearing is planned for Monday, lawyers say for both parties.

The ruling of the Court of Appeal confirmed the rest of the temporary limiting order of the district judge that LSU took to take revenge against Levy “because of its protected academic freedom and freedom of expression.”

Levy’s lawyer Jill Craft said she is satisfied with the decision of the Court of Appeal to maintain “the bulk” of the limiting order on behalf of her client.

“What it means is that his rights are protected and LSU cannot take action against him and so that is a good thing,” Craft told the Associated Press.

Jimmy Faircloth, Jr., a lawyer who represents LSU, said that the elements of the restrictive order confirmed by the Court of Appeal, are “superfluous” and “does nothing but tell LSU:” You can’t break the law “Know and we don’t.”

Levy’s suspension is “not a matter of academic freedom” but rather about “inappropriate behavior in the classroom,” said LSU’s Vice -President Marketing and Communication Todd Woodward in an Email statement.

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“Our research showed that Professor Levy created a class environment that was humiliating for students who do not have his political vision, threatening in terms of their figures and profane,” Woodward added.

Levy said in a sworn explanation that he had made his comments “on a joke” to emphasize his support for the first amendment and to emphasize the NO recording policy in his class.

Levy had issued a no -shelter rule “because he did not want to be the next target of Governor Landry – although it is ironically what happened,” said Levy’s lawsuit.

Last November Gov. Landry is publicly called upon to discipline LSU to discipline another professor of law, Nicholas Bryner, who criticized Trump and students who voted for him during a lecture. Bryner remains in the service of LSU.

In a Tuesday post on X, Landry stated that the behavior of Levy “should not be tolerated to our universities financed by the taxpayer.”

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Levy’s lawsuit said that LSU’s actions violate his appropriate process and “chilling and limiting … Freedom of expression.”

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Brook is a member of the Corps for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a non -profit National Service Program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow Brook on the social platform X: @Jack_Brook96.

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