Spectrum WT student group and student leaders want an injunction issued that would allow the show to proceed while a lawsuit about alleged free speech violations continues in the lower courts. (REUTERS/Axel Schmidt)
The appeal has gone directly to Justice Samuel Alito, who can decide the matter on his own or ask his colleagues to weigh in.
The initial lawsuit was filed in March of last year by the legal advocacy group, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
The lawsuit alleged that university President Walter Wendler unilaterally canceled a student group’s charity drag show fundraising for LGBTQ+ suicide prevention because of his personal religious beliefs and because drag shows are "derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny."
The district and appeals courts declined to rule on an expedited timeline, so FIRE appealed to the Supreme Court ahead of the show scheduled for March 22. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
The district and appeals courts declined to rule on an expedited timeline, so FIRE appealed to the Supreme Court ahead of the show scheduled for March 22.
"With Spectrum WT’s next show only weeks away, our clients and free expression at West Texas A&M need the courts’ immediate intervention," FIRE attorney Adam Steinbaugh, adding the group is "asking the Supreme Court to step in and put an end to the censorship that has muzzled protected expression at West Texas A&M for far too long."
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A representative for West Texas A&M declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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