[bbor]

This is literally the definition of a first amendment issue, in my eyes. Should the president be able to ban anyone who works for any company that has any government contracts from making any critical statements about his administration? This isn’t some intern in the office of the politician she (seemingly lightly) criticized, this is a tenured professor.

Besides, IMO tenured professors are the very front line of free speech, perhaps right behind journalists - for the system to function at all (/continue limping along), tenured professors should NEVER be afraid of criticizing the government. At all. In any way.

[dctoedt]

> * this is a tenured professor.*

I don't think she's tenured — her TAMU Web page says she's a clinical assistant professor. [0]

[0] https://health.tamu.edu/experts/joy-alonzo.html