The University of Florida has barred faculty members from testifying in a lawsuit against new voting restrictions, raising questions about freedom of speech and the right to testify.

The testimonies by political scientists Daniel Smith, Michael McDonald, and Sharon Wright Austin against Senate Bill 90, an election reform bill that updates voter identification requirements for mail-in ballots and regulates how absentee ballots are handled, among other provisions, could be “adverse to the university’s interests,” according to the school, which emphasized its “long track record of supporting free speech and [its] faculty’s academic freedom” in an email to the Washington Examiner.