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Print WASHINGTON - The high school cheerleader relegated to the JV squad for another year responded with a fleeting fit of frustration: a photo of her upraised middle finger and another word that begins with F. “F--- school, f--- softball, f--- cheer, f--- everything,” 14-year-old Brandi Levy typed into Snapchat one spring Saturday. Like all “snaps” posted to a Snapchat “story,” this one, sent to about 250 “friends,” was to disappear within 24 hours, before everyone returned to Pennsylvania’s Mahanoy Area High School on Monday. Instead, an adolescent outburst and the adult...

April 26, 2021 | 1:02 PM WASHINGTON – The high school cheerleader relegated to the JV squad for another year responded with a fleeting fit of frustration: a photo of her upraised middle finger and another word that begins with F. “F— school, f— softball, f— cheer, f— everything,” 14-year-old Brandi Levy typed into Snapchat one spring Saturday. Like all “snaps” posted to a Snapchat “story,” this one, sent to about 250 “friends,” was to disappear within 24 hours, before everyone returned to Pennsylvania’s Mahanoy Area High School on Monday. Instead, an adolescent out...

Republican and Democrats have slammed Joe Biden's announcement They have said it is 'divisive', 'brainless', a 'radical left' ploy and a 'power grab'  Biden established commission to examine expanding the Supreme Court Friday Move would wipe out conservative majority on the bench formed under Trump  Mitch McConnell said it was 'more evidence of the far-left's influence on Biden'  Mitt Romney said it would 'forever diminish institutions at our foundation'  Rep. Marsha Blackburn said Democrats will 'destroy institutions to seize power'  Nikki Haley said: 'Court packing is undemocratic, div...

WASHINGTON, December 22, 2020—When you cross the threshold of a public school, does the Bill of Rights still apply?  The National Archives marked the 229th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights with a virtual discussion about the intersection of law and education last week, moderated by Stephen Wermiel of American University. Panelists included Linda Monk, author of The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide; Mary Beth Tinker, plaintiff in U.S. Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines Iowa Independent School District; and Justin Driver, Yale Law School professor and author of ...

With -- which is a limit on political choices. >> all right. my p my supreme court cases you are happy with? >> there are some great supreme court decisions out there. the first one -- it was -- when i fell in love with the constitution was when i was in ninth grade and i learned about the court's decision, tinker versus des moines school district which is a decision that upheld the right of high school students to wear black armbands protesting the vietnam war. their teachers told them not do this. they sued. they said we had a first amendment right do that. the supreme court ruled in their f...