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Jeff Sessions Defends Campus Speech On Tucker: ‘Conservatives Are Being Silenced’

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday to defend free speech on American college campuses.

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Tucker Carlson asked Sessions, “So what is the problem you’re seeking to address with this initiative?”

Sessions told The Daily Caller co-founder, “We have too much suppression of free and open speech on college campuses today.  Particularly conservatives are being silenced in many ways. Controversial speakers are being blocked. You know the veto by the heckler who threatens to protest and disrupt the speech so the college may withdraw the speaker’s invitation so they won’t be a disturbance.”

The attorney general continued, “These kind of things really threaten the entire educational system in my view–the integrity of it. We have a heritage of free speech. It’s in our Constitution. It’s deeply embedded in our whole approach to life and we need to push back.”

“And so we’re going to push back. Some of these actions can be a violation of Civil Rights. You have First Amendment rights in this country to speak and sometimes those rights can be impacted,” he added.

Sessions spoke at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, stating that American college campuses were “transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness and homogeneous thought, a shelter for fragile egos.” (RELATED: Georgetown Law Profs. Issue Error-Riddled Statement Before Sessions Speaks On Campus)

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