Liberal hippies of the 1960s would be ashamed of Biden the helicopter parent The president rides a leftist wave down a trough of government-controlled speech and monitored society Follow Us
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Bobby Kennedy, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey and the traditional liberals of the civil rights era are tossing and turning in their graves as Uncle Joe rides the new leftist wave down a trough of government-controlled speech and into a constrained and monitored society.
Consider the new administration’s support of speech restrictions at school.
“F k school f k softball f k cheer f k everything,” a high school student wrote on Snapchat after failing to make the varsity cheerleading squad. When the student was then suspended from the JV cheer team due to the caption, she claimed her post sent off-campus, without specifically identifying the school fell under First Amendment protections. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Almost 200 current and former student school board members across the country, including 67 from Maryland, weighed in this week on an upcoming Supreme Court case that they say could have dire implications on students’ right to free speech.
Chemerinsky: SCOTUS weighs whether freedom of speech applies to students off campus using social media
Erwin Chemerinsky. Photo by Jim Block.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear its last oral arguments of the term in April, and it will finish with a First Amendment case of potential great importance.
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. involves whether a student can be punished for speech on social media over the weekend.
The court has not decided a student speech case in over a decade, and this will be the first to address the ability of schools to impose discipline for speech out of school and over social media.
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