Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear First Amendment Case Challenging School Ban on American Flag Shirts

Via Billy

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"If students learn that threatening speakers is an effective way to suppress speech," the Tinkers told SCOTUS, "this will produce more threats, and more suppression of a wide range of other speech. And beyond this, even peaceful students will learn that free speech must yield whenever its opponents are willing to threaten violence—a message antithetical to all things this Court has tried to convey about the First Amendment." 

 Full article @ Reason

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