Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday called for the Supreme Court to review bias response teams on college campuses out of concern they stifle free speech rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case on college programs which a conservative group claimed chills free speech and pushes students to be fearful to express an unpopular or controversial viewpoint.

Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should overrule or limit a 75-year-old ruling in a dissent published on Monday. The Supreme Court decided Feres v. United States in 1950. The ruling held that the U.

The Supreme Court is turning back a challenge from conservative college students who say their freedom of speech is violated by a university program for reporting allegations of bias.

For nearly three years, it has seemed inevitable that the Supreme Court would strike down the “buffer zones” that restrict protests near the entrances of reproductive health clinics. A majority of the court has already castigated these laws—and past precedent upholding them—as a subversion of anti-abortion protesters’ First Amendment rights.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving whether bias-response teams created at universities chill speech on campus.

Dissenting Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said the court ultimately will need to intervene on a controversial free speech issue at universities across the country.