Attorney General Ken Paxton has sent a letter to the University of North Texas (“UNT”) demanding answers for potentially violating Texas law by punishing a student for voicing support for national hero Charlie Kirk in the aftermath of his political assassination.
On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated for his courageous defense of truth, patriotism, and Christian beliefs. Instead of mourning this shocking political assassination, radical leftists across the country celebrated the tragedy. Immediately following the assassination, student agitators at UNT began cheering in a classroom and declaring their hope that President Donald Trump would also suffer the same fate. When one brave student expressed her opinion that the political assassinations should not be celebrated, she was berated by classmates and allegedly forced to leave by the professor. University leaders have yet to enforce UNT’s student conduct code, employee ethics policy, and its official commitments to free speech.
“For too long, universities have become incubators for radical left-wing ideology instead of fostering a space for learning and open, peaceful discussion of ideas. Instead of addressing the disgusting celebrations of political assassinations, UNT has protected these terrorist sympathizers and punished the brave student who stood up to the radical mob,” said Attorney General Paxton. “I will not remain silent when our so-called institutions of higher learning stifle free speech and encourage an atmosphere of political terrorism. UNT must answer for its apparent negligence.”
Attorney General Paxton has now demanded answers from UNT regarding the incident and requested that the university follow its own rules by expanding its investigations into the students encouraging illegal political violence. Furthermore, the letter urges that if faculty or staff ratified that conduct through viewpoint discrimination against the complaining student that they be punished for violating university policy.
To read the letter, click here.