The unanimous Court held that a local government board member's freedom of speech was not abridged when he was verbally censured by his colleagues.

[2] In March 2019, U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt dismissed Wilson's complaint, finding that no right was violated so no injury was suffered.

[6] The Court heard oral arguments on November 2, 2021, where an assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States appeared as a friend of the community college.

[8] Writing for the Court, Justice Neil Gorsuch found that Wilson's First Amendment rights were not violated by his fellow board members' censure of him because the censure did not result in any hindrance of his ability to exercise his free speech in his capacity as an elected official and member of the public.

The opinion cites the fact that the use of censure by elected bodies to address the behavior and actions of their members is a practice with a long history in the United States, and it also states that the censure itself constitutes an exercise of First Amendment rights by Wilson's colleagues on the board who voted to reprimand him.