I would sue the socks off Chapman University for discriminatory termination. McCarthyism used black lists to deny due process and civil liberties. Since it violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments, there should be great monetary consequences.
Sen. McCarthy DID NOT use “blacklists” to deny due process and civil liberties. Read M. Stanton Evans’ book “”Blacklisted by History” to see updated research information on the McCarthy controversy.
I helped Stan, a professional friend of mine, to understand the origins of one of McCarthy’s “lists” of communists and sympathizers in the US govt after WW2. There was a nuance to that particular list which fell within my area of research/knowledge so I helped him to understand it.
McCarthy was a bastard. No doubt about it, but anyone who appeared before a congressional committee was allowed to have legal counsel with them, to invoke the 5th Amendment (many did on Communist Party orders - as stated by former CPUSA member Herb Romerstein, who later became one of the US government’s top investigators of communism for both state and US govt/Congressional committees).
Much anti-McCarthy accusations and propaganda were created by the CPUSA using both known or covert Party members to spread it around, as well as using leftist/liberal dupes too (Drew Pearson, Jack Anderson - his background is very interesting, Nicholas von Hoffman, Mary McGrory, the ACLU, etc).
Having testified before 4 congressional committees and done several reports for them, I am familiar with the rules/procedures of giving congressional testimony. You had these rights until the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, House Judiciary Committee and House Committee on Homeland Security recently suspended them for FELLOW MEMBERS OF CONGRESS re asking questions of witnesses, etc, as well as speaking at all. Comrades Pelosi, Nadler, Swalwel and Schiff and others learned their lessons well.
THE QUESTION IS, FROM WHOM?