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The numbers getting worse, a Public Safety issue and political one. Plus another decision day from the Supreme Court. 12 cases left, gang, including several on Voting Rights and Freedom Of Speech, as always, we have our team ready to go for any breaking developments as we get them sometime in the next couple of minutes here. Good morning. Im Hallie Jackson in washington along with our nbc news team, leigh ann caldwell, capitol hill and kel iodonnell at the white house. This is a new day in d. C. , right . The path forward on Voting Rights seems very difficult. It seems like there might be some...

On school students and how far or not a school can go in punishing them for something they say or do outside the classroom. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. you're going to explain the case here. this involved a cheerleader upset she didn't make the cheer squad, posted something on snapchat and the justices are deciding i believe in her favor? >> yes, that's the simple explanation of the decision. this is an 8-1 decision written by justice stephen breyer. it sets aside the lower court ruling which was an absolute ruling that said schools can never punish students for what their ex...

Varsity cheerleading team, she tried out for the varsity, she didn't make it, she posted this snapchat thing on a saturday off campus at a mall shop, criticizing the school using the "f" bomb four times and for that she was suspended from the varsity team and her parents sued. it was the third circuit court of appeals that said look, the schools can certainly discipline students for what they say on campus that's disruptive or harmful to the educational mission but can't touch anything the students say offcampus. the supreme court doesn't go that far. it just says in her case, this was the pun...

This for four and a half minutes so with that caveat noted for our audience can you talk about your takeaways? it seems that the court ruling on the tech issue here because that was part of this, this student posted on snapchat which is a platform intended to have posts disappear after 24 hours, she did it on a weekend and had no intention monday morning in school this would be disruptive. >> this a recurring question. students leave the schoolhouse, they get into social media with a set of their friends and when is it that a school can say look, you violated our disciplinary rules and what th...

Here. >> exactly right, that the first amendment is not going to stop at the school house door. >> tom goldstein, thank you very much. tom, stick with us for a second. i don't believe we have any response from brandy levy, the student or her lawyers. tom, this story captured a lot of attention because of the fact it was involving a fairly new tech platform snapchat, a student upset about the cheerleading squad thing and involved the potential for what some looked at is the issue of bullying, cyberbullying, how schools address this. if you're an educator in this country and this has come up for...