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That is trying to find something of a middle ground and it's in some cutting edge areas here. the court hadn't dealt with offcampus speech yet. they say they're making a modest ruling here as a first step into this area, they want to recognize that the facts will matter a lot and so the justices here just set out some general goal posts on which they could agree and said look, this student was just talking off campus about the cheerleading squad talking to our own social circle, that's not close enough to the interests of the school to permit her to be punished. >> can you, is pete williams st...

Superfluous in order to preserve the necessary." put that into plain english. >> justice breyer is saying i know a kid was going off and strange to hold that up, what we're concerned with the first amendment to the constitution, what is the big deal, but the principle at stake is huge and it's very distinguished. it's very difficult to distinguish the precise words that she used and complaining about that, making the varsity squad from very eloquent political speech, it's free speech he says and sometimes it's kind of not sophisticated but it's protected. >> and tom, it's interesting, because ...