US EditionFlorida campus roiled after antisemitic student wins law school award for paper defending white supremacy
- University of Florida suspended 29-year-old law student Preston Damsky on April 3 after he posted antisemitic remarks and was barred from campus for three years.
- Damsky won a book award last fall for a paper arguing that the Constitution’s phrase 'We the People' applies only to white people and non-whites should lose voting rights.
- The paper, taught by Trump-appointed Judge John L. Badalamenti, also called for orders to kill criminal infiltrators and claimed political leaders were controlled by Jews.
- University of Florida Hillel condemned Damsky’s rhetoric and urged policy review after the award, while law community members called for clearer limits between offensive speech and violence.
- The controversy triggered a town hall in April where Dean McAlister stressed protecting the law school’s reputation and noted ongoing administrative efforts to address the situation.
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“Our Constitution will survive only if ‘the people share a common, historic commitment to certain simple but fundamental principles which preserve their freedom.’ One of those principles, accepted by our Founders who as a whole ‘unambiguously conceived of the United States as a White country,’ was nationalism — specifically, racial nationalism. If we abandon that principle while turning over America to a non-White majority, a majority that will …
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University of Florida law student Preston Damsky holds an ideology most would dismiss as beyond the fringe. In a term paper for a fall semester class on “originalism” — the legal theory interpreting the Constitution’s original meaning favored by most conservative jurists — the 29-year-old California native and self-proclaimed white nationalist didn’t hold back on his racist, transgressive beliefs. The phrase, “We the People,” refers only to whit…
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