In tandem with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Georgetown law school lecture chastising college campuses for inhibiting free speech, the U.S. Justice Department has waded into a First Amendment lawsuit against a metro Atlanta community college.

The Georgia suit was filed in December on behalf of a Christian evangelical student by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal organization that has taken an increasingly prominent role in filing religious freedom cases. Chike Uzuegbunam claimed that his ability to proclaim his beliefs in student common areas at Georgia Gwinnett College had been unconstitutionally curtailed by school administrators and police.

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