Louisiana’s Republican leaders chastised Loyola University on Tuesday after its student government association declined to formally recognize a campus chapter of Turning Point USA, a conservative political student group founded by the late Charlie Kirk.

Gov. Jeff Landry, Attorney General Liz Murrill, the chair of the state Republican party and the Louisiana Freedom Caucus, a faction of hard-right state lawmakers, criticized the decision to deny the Turning Point chapter's request to become a chartered student organization at the New Orleans school, with the governor saying he would look into the matter and the caucus chair suggesting that the private university could lose any state funding it may receive. Loyola does not receive direct state funding, but some students receive state schol

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