As the 1st Amendment enumerates the entire country is a Free Speech Zone. Any law, policy, or regulation that says otherwise is unconstitutional and therefore is not legal, I don’t care how many black-robed clowns rule them legal.
Well, not quite. For example, Jim Robinson has the right (and obviously exercises it) to limit "free speech" right here in FR, and I think we would all agree that private businesses have the right to limit it in their establishments.
It's only the government that is Constitutionally prohibited from infringing on that right. I don't know whether or not the school in this instance is publicly owned or not, but that could have a bearing on the argument.
For the record, I am appalled that the school would do anything to discourage handing out copies of the Constitution, whether or not they have an arguable legal right to do so. I can't help wondering, for example, if the student would face the same restrictions if he was handing out copies of, say, the college rule book, or book of California legal statutes.
In any case, I'm thrilled to see this guy pushing back against the administration. Such activity by students in the 1960s is one reason that colleges today are the left-wing stink holes that they have become.
I hope this student keeps an eye open for any infraction of this school policy by left-wing students pushing leftist causes, and does an Alinsky (i.e. forcing the college to live up to its own rules.)