Opinion Editorial IN OUR VIEW | Protecting What's Necessary: Court makes right call in student speech case "It might be tempting to dismiss (the student's) words as unworthy of the robust First Amendment protections discussed herein. But sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary." Jun. 25 2021 @ 7:17pm "It might be tempting to dismiss (the student's) words as unworthy of the robust First Amendment protections discussed herein. But sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary." So wrote U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer for the 8-1 majority in the case of Brandi Levy.