And this is not from The Onion!
Two members of Young Americans for Liberty’s (YAL) Kellogg Community College (KCC) chapter have filed suit against the Michigan school following their arrest on campus last September for passing out pocket-sized copies of the U.S. Constitution without administrative permission.
Michelle Gregoire (a student at KCC) and Brandon Withers, along with KCC’s YAL chapter are suing the school, its Board of Trustees, and several high-ranking administrators for violating the students’ “clearly established constitutional rights” when they were charged with trespassing and jailed for seven hours (the charges which were dismissed 10 days later, according to Watchdog.org).
The plaintiffs claim the school violated their rights of freedom of speech, due process, and equal protection under the law, and as a public institution, KCC is bound by the First Amendment.
Before having campus police place them under arrest, school administrators insisted Gregoire and Withers were in violation of the school’s solicitation policy because they had not received prior approval to recruit for their organization, which the students claimed they had repeatedly attempted to obtain through official channels to no avail.
Watch video of their arrest below, where Gregoire is warned to not return to campus without permission, even though she attends the school:
Via Reason