Law students help TPUSA chapter appeal denial at Loyola University New Orleans

Supporters Turning point USA At Loyola University Law School in New Orleans, they teamed up with undergraduate counterparts as younger students struggled to start a chapter from the conservative group.

On October 15, Loyola’s Student Government Association (SGA) Senate blocked the Turning Point chapter from becoming an officially recognized chapter. Organization on campusWhich caused a national uproar. Now, two law students have stepped in to help the conservative group draft and submit an appeal to the SGA.

“I found that this was probably not true for the SGA to determine whether or not students should have access to an organization,” Ethan Estes, a law student at Loyola University, told Fox News Digital, adding that similar denials of the new Turning Point chapters are happening across the country.

Estes, who enlisted the help of a second law student to draft the appeal, served as a field representative for Turning Point during his undergraduate studies at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and has stayed in touch with leaders of the expanding conservative organization.

Marquette Hall on the campus of Loyola University as seen from St. Charles Street in New Orleans. (MatijPhoto/Getty Images)

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“This person had just arrived at my house, and I wanted to help as much as I could,” he said.

Estes spoke with Turning Point’s current field representative in Louisiana, who connected him with the undergraduates.

“Reviewing SGA’s complaint about why they rejected the charter, it was made up through justice and not through law,” Estes said. “Most of it was subjective reasoning. They didn’t really connect it to any of the laws or rules and regulations that they were supposed to follow, and it was purely subjective. And that was the basis of the attack we made in our written appeal.”“

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Estes noted that one reason the chapter was officially rejected is because, according to SGA, Turning Point is too similar to other Christian organizations on campus. But as Estes points out, Turning Point is not even an explicitly Christian group, advocating conservative principles like free markets and limited government.

As much as the turning point does Promoting ChristianityHe took issue with the notion by some SGA leaders and students opposed to the group that its values ​​were incompatible with those of the university.

Statue of Jesus in front of Loyola University in New Orleans. (Gregory Corbel/Getty Images)

In opposition to the class, a new student named Rosalina Framboise reportedly said That the group is not affiliated with the Jesuit Catholic campus is due to the late Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk’s assertions that “gay people are trying to corrupt your children” and “trans and gender fluidity are lies that hurt people and abuse children.”

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The Catholic Church does not support same-sex or transgender marriage, and just this week Ban of Catholic bishops So-called “gender-affirming care” from Catholic hospitals.

the Loyola New Orleans The SGA Review Tribunal confirmed it had received the students’ appeal, and said it plans to make a decision on the fate of the dismissal before November 21.

Vice President J.D. Vance addresses a Turning Point USA audience at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, Wednesday, October 30, 2025. (Jonathan Ernest Ball/Getty Images)

Estes said the formal appeals process to the SGA Senate remains somewhat unclear, though he believes the review court has the ability to either overturn the SGA Senate decision on its own, or send the matter back to the SGA Senate for further review.

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“They didn’t know exactly where to go with this appeal,” Estes said of the Turning Point organizers, calling them “amazing” people. “They sent me a template of what an appeal looks like, which, by the way, Loyola has not been publicly transparent about… And tell them how to appeal.”

“They were very grateful for that [the help]. They told me their story. I wrote exactly what I thought [the appeal] “It should look like it,” Estes said. “They made some adjustments and changes, as did I. But they didn’t have a lot of guidance from the beginning on where to go.“

Charlie Kirk tips hats to the crowd after arriving at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (Trent Nelson/Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

While the group waits to learn its fate, Estes told Fox News Digital that he does not believe the SGA should have the right to deny official chapter status to a group, provided that group has met all the requirements required by Loyola, as Turning Point has done.

“Limiting existing campus organizations simply because of the subjective logic that SGA is using here is not correct,” he said.

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Loyola said it has supported and will continue to support the student government process outlined in the Student Government Handbook, and that Turning Point founders go through the same process that all other student organizations face when forming.

“The university continually supports this peer-to-peer process and emphasizes equity, inclusion, and respect for different viewpoints as part of its Jesuit educational mission,” the school told Fox News Digital.

“Furthermore, Loyola encourages civil discourse and open dialogue across all viewpoints, which is essential to our Jesuit-Catholic mission and our shared commitment to the pursuit of truth. Our Catholic and Jesuit identity calls us to think critically, engage different viewpoints with empathy and respect, and support student autonomy as a meaningful part of the Loyola experience.”