SIOUX FALLS — A federal judge on Wednesday granted a University of South Dakota professor’s request for a temporary restraining order , which means the university has to reinstate him for the time being and pause its effort to fire him for his social media post about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

More than 40 people showed up at a federal courthouse for a hearing on the professor’s motion. Speaking with that crowd surrounding him, and with U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier in front of him, Phillip Michael Hook’s lawyer said Hook ought to be immediately reinstated as an art professor at the university, and that the Board of Regents — which oversees the state’s public universities — should not be allowed to proceed with a Monday disciplinary hearing that could end with his termination.

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