UChicago union not subject to First Amendment scrutiny

CHICAGO — An advocacy group called Graduate Students for Academic Freedom lost its First Amendment lawsuit against a University of Chicago graduate students’ union and its parent union, which allegedly forced the group’s members to support and finance a student union that “engaged in antisemitic rhetoric following the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel.” The group’s fail chiefly because the union and the University of Chicago “are private entities to which the First Amendment does not ordinarily apply.”