Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee and an Indiana congressman, has issued a letter to Butler University demanding answers over its investigation into Butler’s College Republicans chapter.
“Your investigation not only risks having a chilling effect on students’ free speech, but reasonably could lead outside observers, including myself, to believe that Butler University is targeting its College Republicans chapter because of its own political biases,” writes Banks in the letter, sent Dec. 20.
Butler University, located in Indianapolis, launched an official investigation into its College Republicans chapter after the group criticized an Oct. 12 Students for Justice in Palestine protest which included antisemitic chants.
The Daily Signal filmed the Butler student-led pro-Palestine protest on Monument Circle in…
