U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's upcoming speech has attracted lots of attention long before her arrival Oct. 16 on stage at the University of Minnesota's Northrop auditorium.
Student groups plan a protest and a boycott and have sought a rescission of the justice's invitation.
Mira Altobell-Resendez, a graduate and now employee at the U, is a member of Students for a Democratic Society, a group intending to protest on the plaza in front of Northrop during the justice's 90-minute speech.
"Our plan is to make a lot of noise outside, to make a large display that we won't accept her presence on our campus, or we won't accept it quietly at least," Altobell-Resendez said. "The decisions she makes on the court make other people's lives harder."
Interim Law School Dean William McGeveran defended the invitation. "As a law school, it's valuable for our students to be able to hear directly from one of the nine most important jurists in our country," he said.
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