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Students. and the issue for the judge was that the aclu said, look, this was not a threat. no logical being would view this as a threat of any kind. so he was being disciplined because it was embarrassing or annoying to the school. now, 1969, the court in really the high point of free speech rights for students said in a case called tinker that you can't discipline students for things that are not disruptive, things that are not really interfering with the school's mission. that, unfortunately, was the high point. after that, the supreme court continually rolled back on students' rights. the w...

Rules are different. the supreme court has said, as a student, you don't check all your first amendment rights at the door. but the supreme court and all the courts always go back to the same old case. it's the easiest thing in the world to be a first amendment lawyer with this. because you just go back to this case called tinker. students wore black arm bands in school to protest the vietnam war. and there the supreme court said if it creates a material, substantial disruption, the school can suppress that speech. and just about every court since then has read those words and done whatever th...