Lloyd Cohen nailed it in a speech given to the GMU faculty senate:
And let’s not kid ourselves—the whole world knows what is going on here. If this were a gift from George Soros to create the Harry Blackmun Law School we would not be here today. The political agenda of this body is transparent.
And it is the transparency of this political agenda to attack academic freedom cloaked in the garb of a purported defense of academic freedom that leads me to call on every Senator to think about the principle that you would be voting for today if you go along with this statement.
Go read the whole thing.