The Justice Department has won a small but significant victory in the campus free-speech case of Young America’s Foundation and Berkeley College Republicans v. Napolitano. Justice didn’t have to get involved in the case, but it did so and has helped the cause of free speech. Justice’s work in the case and others like it is a reminder that good government is possible in the agencies, despite the daily White House drama.

According to a Justice Department summary of the case, the plaintiffs, YAF and BCR, allege that the University of California, Berkeley, has a double standard when it comes to free speech. BCR says that Berkeley applies more rigorous and highly discretionary policies to the events BCR seeks to offer than the university does to those arranged by other campus groups, especially for events featuring “high-profile” speakers.