Gov. Mike Braun on Monday removed all three IU trustees elected by alumni and replaced two of them with polarizing and well-known conservatives Jim Bopp and Sage Steele.

Bopp, an attorney, is best known for representing Citizens United in what became a Supreme Court case that eliminated limits on corporate political spending. He has also taken on pro-life, anti-LGBTQ and anti-vaccine legal cases.

He once represented a group of students who sued IU. He also sued the City of Bloomington to end an anti-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBT people.

Steele, a sportscaster, was suspended from ESPN in 2021 after comments against COVID vaccine mandates and former President Barack Obama’s parentage.

The other trustee appointment was attorney Brian Eagle. Quinn Buckner was reappointed as the

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