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Watch Live Stream: Jeff Sessions Gives Address On Free Speech At Georgetown
The attorney general will give the address in the midst of free speech debates surrounding Berkeley and the NFL protests.
WASHINGTON, DC — Attorney General Jeff Sessions will deliver an address Tuesday to the Georgetown Center for the Constitution at the university's Law Center at 12 p.m. Eastern.
He will be joined by Director of the Center Professor Randy Barnett. Sessions will discuss free speech, a topic at the forefront of topic debate in light of recent protests over speakers at University of California-Berkeley and President Trump's recent denunciations of NFL players who kneel during the national anthem. (For more local news, subscribe for free to the Georgetown Patch. For more information on this and other political stories, subscribe to the White House Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)
Ahead of the speech, a large group of Georgetown faculty knelt in front of the law center in protest of Sessions' appearance, The Daily Caller staffer Will Racke reported.
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Georgetown Law faculty arrives to take a knee in protest of Sessions' appearance on campus. pic.twitter.com/aOEaUgAQAJ
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