Kent Fuchs

Another protest is planned outside Emerson Alumni Hall during Sasse's interview.

The federal judge said the university had blatantly violated the Constitution and described the university’s legal defenses as “shocking.”

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker held a fiery hearing Friday on the plaintiffs’ request to block the university from enforcing a policy that drew national attention after three political science professors were blocked from testifying in an elections law case.

Fuchs said he will remain president until a new president is appointed — likely in early 2023. He plans to return to conducting research and teaching electrical and computer engineering at the university.

In the lawsuit, the professors claimed university officials told them that going against the executive branch of the government was “adverse” to the school’s interests.

The professors filed the lawsuit after the university denied their requests to serve as plaintiffs’ witnesses in a challenge to a new state elections law.

The motion says the university's conflict of interest policy “provides the university unbridled discretion to restrict faculty speech on public issues based on impermissible considerations that have nothing to do with faculty integrity or discipline.”

The trustees' chairmen denied that the trustees played a role in the decision to prohibit the professors from participating in “outside activities” that would conflict with UF’s policies.

The university's report follows an outcry about the school blocking professors from testifying in a challenge to a controversial elections law.

The lawsuit comes despite the university reversing course and allowing the professors to testify as experts in a case challenging a new elections law.

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