GOP lawmaker accuses law school of anti-Christian bias after it confirms he lied about attending

19 October 2023

A far-right Republican state lawmaker from North Dakota is lashing out at the University of Minnesota law school after the school reiterated that he was not a student there.

Rep. Brandon Prichard, who was elected in 2022, has made numerous comments and anecdotes about attending the University of Minnesota Law School. According to Fargo, North Dakota newspaper The Forum, Prichard recently commented about being a law student at the University of Minnesota at the end of the most recent legislative session while speaking against a wind energy bill. But when the law school posted to X (formerly Twitter) that Rep. Prichard was not enrolled there, he took to the airwaves to attack the school for having an alleged bias against Christians, and suggested he may sue the law school for unspecified reasons.

"If you look at the person who is behind the social media account, they have clearly anti-Christian things on their page," Rep. Prichard said on a conservative televised public access program. "I believe that this was politically motivated in a lot of ways."

"There very likely could be a lawsuit that comes from this. I mean, there really could be," he added.

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When the program's hosts pressed him on his attendance status, Prichard eventually admitted he was enrolled in undergrad classes at the University of Minnesota, though he insisted that he was taking classes at the law school "that will overlap and allow me to continue being in law school after undergraduate."

A representative of the law school confirmed to The Forum that Prichard was not enrolled there, and that if he did take a class, it was a "one-off class" offered "for the public" by the law school.

Prichard has made a name for himself as one of the North Dakota legislature's most ardent opponents of LGBTQ+ rights. The freshman lawmaker sponsored a bill to ban drag shows, and earlier this month suggested "every conservative state should put into code that Jesus Christ is King and dedicate their state to Him." He's also called for banning public universities from having same-sex homecoming royalty (after North Dakota State University crowned two homecoming kings), wants to ban pornography, and has even gone so far as to say that followers of non-Christian religions should have their right to worship curtailed.

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