My first-year law students have launched their legal education stuck indoors and isolated from each other. Undergraduate and graduate students across California share their disappointment. But Gov. Gavin Newsom has forced the state’s institutions of higher learning to close their physical campuses, impeding their missions and putting many at risk of financial ruin.

Newsom has proceeded without legislative input, judicial review, or the backing of scientific consensus. His rule by Executive Order threatens freedoms of expression, assembly and privacy long and justly claimed by the academic community—freedoms that the constitutions of the United States and California make public law. If schools, faculty and students do not resist, they risk losing not just their rights but their educational community.

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