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Court hears arguments in cases involving student speech and freedom of association Min
The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in two important First Amendment cases, one involving student speech and the other involving freedom of association. The outcome of these cases could profoundly affect the ways in which Americans express themselves.
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involves a claim by a teenage student that the school district violated her First Amendment rights when it punished her for an angry message that she sent via Snap Chat after being cut from school athletic teams.
The message, which was sent on a Saturday, showed the student and her friend giving the middle finger to the camera with the text “F school f softball f cheer f everything.”
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Nonetheless, more than one professor raised an eyebrow at a passage in the motion for expedited consideration [
emphasis ours]:
Finally, if this matter is not timely resolved, not only Petitioner, but the Nation as а whole may suffer injury from the resulting confusion. Indeed, the intense national and worldwide attention on the 2020 Presidential election only foreshadows
the disruption that may well follow if the uncertainty and unfairness shrouding this election are allowed to persist. The importance of а prompt resolution of the federal constitutional questions presented by this case cannot be overstated.
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