There is a saying in the Catholic Church that “error has no rights.” Yet William Treanor, the dean of Georgetown University Law Center, is claiming constitutional protection for the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies under the guise of religious freedom. This is as flawed as it is hypocritical.

In a letter dated March 6 responding to interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin’s investigation into the school’s DEI ideology, Treanor said, “Given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its own curriculum and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution.”