Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis and the State University System of Florida are calling on a federal judge to dismiss a First Amendment lawsuit brought by Palestinian student groups facing “deactivation” on Florida campuses.

The governor and board made the motions last month in the Northern District of Florida, in response to federal lawsuits filed by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) groups at the University of Florida and University of South Florida. The defendants argue that the lawsuits don’t amount to clearly pleaded arguments of free speech violations.

The motion filed by DeSantis attorneys, which argues for the dismissal of the governor as a defendant, states that a memorandum issued by Chancellor Ray Rodrigues simply encouraged the two campuses to deactivate their student chapters of the National SJP to avert future antisemitic attacks on the campuses..