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George F. Will: When judicial deference becomes dereliction of duty

The court essentially held that a professor’s academic freedom exists only until some other professors, and university administrators, say it does not.

Conservative columnist and pundit George Will, is interviewed in this office in the Georgetown section of Washington on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin’s Supreme Court can soon right a flagrant wrong stemming from events set in motion in 2014 at Milwaukee’s Marquette University by Cheryl Abbate. Although just a graduate student, she already had a precocious aptitude for academic nastiness.

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