The University of Florida expects to get sued over its refusal to rent space for a speech by the white nationalist leader behind the Charlottesville, Virginia, rally that turned deadly. It just doesn't know when.

UF president W. Kent Fuchs released a statement Wednesday offering an “update on potential speaker” Richard Spencer, the president of the National Policy Institute who wants to speak on the public university campus in Gainesville on Sept. 12.

Representatives of Spencer's group “have retained legal counsel and plan to pursue efforts to hold this event as originally requested,” Fuchs wrote. He promised a vigorous defense, saying, “The safety of our students, faculty and staff is our highest priority.”