{"id":290878,"date":"2026-05-13T07:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290878\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:19:07","slug":"texas-state-must-reinstate-fired-prof-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290878\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Must Reinstate Fired Prof, Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas State University fired Idris Robinson for the talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a year prior.<\/p>\n<p>Mikala Compton\/Austin American-Statesman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>A federal court judge ruled Monday that Idris Robinson\u2014a philosophy professor at Texas State University who was fired for an unaffiliated, out-of-state talk he gave about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a year prior\u2014must be reinstated with pay, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailynous.com\/2026\/05\/11\/judge-orders-texas-state-to-reinstate-robinson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Daily Nous reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reinstatement must last for one year or until the end of his trial, whichever comes first, according to a news release from the Texas State Employees Union.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to notes taken during the hearing, Judge Albright stated, \u2018Given that the state really hasn\u2019t made an effort to argue that the speech that the plaintiff gave [wasn\u2019t] in some role or another a motivating factor [in the plaintiff\u2019s firing]\u2014I don\u2019t know that they could, given the fact that he was suspended immediately after the speech and told that it was because he exercised his right to First Amendment\u2014I\u2019m going to order that the university maintain his employment contract for one year or until the case resolves, whichever is sooner,\u2019\u201d the news release stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A union spokesperson called the ruling \u201can enormous victory\u201d for Robinson and \u201canyone else who cares about protecting free speech and dissent in Texas.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas State University fired Idris Robinson for the talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a year prior.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4144,163,64,8894,2184,223,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-290878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-higher","tag-jobs","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}