Goldman denounces GOP bill on campus protests

September 19, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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CAPITOL HILL — BROOKLYN CONGRESSMEMBER DAN GOLDMAN IS DENOUNCING a Republican-led bill in the House that he said would weaken universities’ ability to enforce restrictions on campus protests, according to a statement he released on Thursday, Sept. 19. Goldman said that The Accreditation for College Excellence Act of 2023, indexed as H.R. 3724, which advanced from committee with unanimous Republican support, “would potentially strip public universities of their ability to control spontaneous protests or enforce reasonable ‘time, place, and manner’ restrictions on campus protests, which is the most basic method used by universities to stop antisemitic protests and encampments on campus.”

“After months of haranguing university presidents for failing to protect Jewish students on college campuses, Republicans are bringing to the floor a bill that will make it more difficult for universities to keep Jewish students safe,” Goldman said, adding that the bill also makes all campus spaces effectively “public forums.”

Goldman instead urged Congress to support and pass his “Showing Up for Students” Act so Congress can be part of the solution, not the problem. That bill, which he first introduced in May and is currently in committee, would appropriate funds for the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education, according to its record in Congress.gov.

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