Jeff Sessions defends free speech moments before siding with Trump on NFL

The Guardian: US attorney general Jeff Sessions faced accusations of hypocrisy after he delivered an impassioned defense of free speech, then moments later backed Donald Trump’s claim that athletes who kneel during the national anthem should be fired.

Sessions waded into the argument about free speech on campuses, condemning protesters he said were “now routinely shutting down speeches and debates across the country in an effort to silence voices that insufficiently conform with their views”.

In a speech at the Georgetown University law center in Washington DC, he denounced American universities for “transforming into an echo chamber of political correctness and homogenous thought, a shelter for fragile egos”.

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