The release announces Stein filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to “preserve schools’ ability to address cyberbullying and other forms of off-campus bullying that substantially affect students’ education.”
Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., a case concerning the ability of schools to punish students for off-campus speech.”
The press release states, “But the lower court in this case ruled that schools may never regulate students’ off-campus speech,” a grossly distorted claim counter to any plain reading of the recent court ruling at issue.
In fact, despite Stein’s hyperbolic claims, according to two highly respected constitutional experts, the case to be argued in front of the high court has nothing to do with bullying at all. It has to do with the government’s nearly unfettered ability to regulate and punish students to disfavored speech off-campus and away from school activities, specifically dealing with speech that’s not thre
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“It’s almost like an insult that this is happening to us now, after so much sacrifice to develop the community to the point it’s at today,” Venessa Cardenas explains, in Crawfish Rock, Roatán, as she remembers her grandmother who passed away last May at 90 years old. “She was the one who fought for us to have the road, the school, water, all of the basic projects… the government has never given us anything that we didn’t fight for. She gave everything for this community. She’s the reason me and my family are so firm.”
Does it ever get old? The never-ending wash, rinse, repeat cycle of liberals throwing out the race card every time they don’t like conservatives doing or not doing something, even when completely legal, normal and appropriate?
Heath, a former state budget director, will manage the administrative services provided to the judicial branch’s more than 6,400 employees and 213 judicial facilities in every county, with a budget of roughly $550 million. Heath’s role began last week. As any reasonable person would expect, Heath has begun replacing former Chief Justice Cherie Beasley’s top-level administrators within AOC.
Heath has already announced Ryan Boyce will be leading the Court Program and Services as well as Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs. University of North Carolina professor Trey Allen will serve as the new AOC General Counsel.
In the spirit of the exception proving the rule, most lovers of liberty accept that government has a critical role to play in combatting communicable disease.
Process and prudence always matter
Published January 7, 2021
In the spirit of the exception proving the rule, most lovers of liberty accept that government has a critical role to play in combatting communicable disease.
In a free society, voluntary exchange based on private property and the rule of law is the default. It’s the best way to solve problems, resolve disputes, and make us better off over time. But easily transmittable germs complicate the process of informed consent. As they spread, they subject third parties to potential sickness and death.
As COVID-19 struck the world in early 2020, then, most conservatives and libertarians agreed that government possessed both the legitimate power and the responsibility to respond. What we insisted on, however, were two constraints: process and prudence.