WAR ON WOMEN: New Clinton Foundation Chief Blocked Conservative Women From Forming Group As University President. “It was the 2002-2003 school year when Shalala and her university administration rejected an upstart group, Advocates for Conservative Thought, on the grounds that it would be redundant since the school already had a College Republicans chapter.”

By that logic, you could block pretty much every other student group if a campus had a Young Democrats chapter. But then, of course, FIRE got involved:

FIRE backed ACT with several letters to Shalala and COSO. The free speech group pointed out that the University of Miami hosted a number of organizations with shared values. The school had multiple Muslim groups, a number of groups for black students, multiple groups for Asian and Hispanic students and a couple for environmentalists.

FIRE sent a letter to Shalala on April 7, 2003, and received response that a policy change was “under consideration.” But COSO followed up with its decision weeks later, informing the group that it would not be approved but could apply again the following semester. No guarantees were provided.

That response generated outrage and national media coverage.

Under growing pressure, Shalala finally caved and called for a reversal of the policy.

But now we know how she thinks.