My Turn: Defending a teen’s right to free speech >In this June 29, 2020 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP >Published: 7/19/2021 3:19:03 PM
A ninth-grader at the Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania identified by the United States Supreme Court as “B.L.” tried out for the varsity cheerleading squad, but she didn’t make it. That rejection (and her unsuccessful tryout for right fielder on a private softball team) was something that she, in the words of Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer, “did not accept . with good grace.”
More specifically, after receiving the bad news (and being offered a spot on junior varsity cheerleading instead) B.L. and a friend visited the Coca Hut, a local convenience store, where B.L. used her smartphone to post two photos to her Snapchat friends group. That’s when the trouble started.
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