Law student claims discrimination after Charlie Kirk flyers removed
Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk is seen at the Utah Valley University, where he was shot and killed Sept. 10, 2025. (Photo by Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)
When the administration at the Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law in North Carolina took down images of slain conservative political activist Charlie Kirk and his family with the message “End Political Violence” the day after he was shot, a law student who put up the posters around the Raleigh, North Carolina, campus was given a disciplinary warning, saying the school didn’t allow posting of personal messages.
But now, according to the News & Observer, student Justin Booker said taking his flyers down while leaving others up is viewpoint discrimination, which violates his rights to free expression, guaranteed by the university’s and the ABA’s policies.
“It says that explicitly in ABA standards that they have to follow the First Amendment jurisprudence. So the fact that they’re not doing that and they have explicitly refused to do that actually is crazy,” Booker told the News & Observer.
Booker contacted the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a nonprofit civil liberties group, which wrote a letter demanding that the school clarify its policies by March 17, the story says.
“Campbell University is currently reviewing the letter, the internal complaint and the Campbell Law student organizational communication and promotion policy,” the law school said in a statement, according to the story. “We plan to respond to FIRE after examining all relevant information.”
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