Representative Kiley Responds to Removal of University President

May 16, 2024

WASHINGTON –Representative Kiley (R-CA) released the following statement after Sonoma State University President Mike Lee was placed on leave for appeasing an unlawful campus encampment by making anti-Semitic policy changes.

“This is a start. Any university president who caters to a lawless mob must be removed immediately,” said Rep. Kiley.

Rep. Kiley has introduced House Resolution 1212 condemning universities that make concessions to unlawful encampments. At a Judiciary Committee Subcommittee hearing yesterday, Rep. Kiley called for the removal of Sonoma State’s President and discussed similar appeasement at Harvard and other universities. He also detailed Sonoma State’s anti-Semitic policy changes on the House Floor.

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