Free speech used to be honored by both left and right -- now shouting down opponents and banning disliked speech is a bipartisan cause

Demonstrators who support banning books gather during a protest outside of the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn, Mich., on Sept. 25, 2022. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

Students’ shutting down campus public speakers has become increasingly common at universities across the U.S.

Recently at Stanford Law School, student protesters shouted over a Trump-appointed federal judge and disrupted the speech he had been invited by students to give.