If nothing else, when it comes to glaring contradictions, the Trump administration is undefeated.

In the latest oxymoron,  Attorney General Jeff Sessions allegedly barred student protesters from a "free speech" lecture given at the Georgetown University Law Center on Tuesday. 

“It’s incredibly ironic that the attorney general wants to come here to talk about free speech, but is excluding dissenting voices and potentially dissenting questions from his speech,” second-year student Lauren Phillips told NPR.

After securing seats for the event, a group of about 130 students were told at the last minute that they were not allowed to attend. Phillips told The Washington Post that she believes organizers withdrew the invitation to “ensure a sympathetic audience” for Sessions. 

Dozens of Georgetown University students waged protests ahead of Sessions' address.

Several faculty members joined in and took a knee on the steps of McDonough Hall in solidarity with the student protestors.

Some of students wore duct tape over their mouths and held signs that read, “DEPORT HATE,” "FREE SPEECH IS NOT HATE SPEECH” and “Sessions is afraid of questions.”

Georgetown law professor Heidi Li Feldman told The Washington Post, “A law school is a place for people to learn about the deepest principles that undergird our democratic republic. Those principles are trampled upon by Attorney General sessions, in particular, and Donald Trump,” she said.

“You cannot invite people who so thoroughly threaten the basic premises of American law to a campus and not speak up if your mission in life is to educate people about the American legal system.”

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