News: U.S. Supreme Court to Hear “Bong Hits 4 Jesus Case”
The First Amendment protects all speech, even dorky non-sensical teenager goofball speech. I hope he wins.
From MSNBC.COM:
Supreme Court takes ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ case
Student hung banner off school property, sparking free speech debate
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court stepped into a dispute over free speech rights Friday involving a suspended high school student and his banner that proclaimed “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.”
Justices agreed to hear the appeal by the Juneau, Alaska, school board and principal Deborah Morse of a lower court ruling that allowed the student’s civil rights lawsuit to proceed. The school board hired former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr to argue its case to the high court.
Morse suspended Frederick after he displayed the banner, with its reference to marijuana use, when the Olympic torch passed through Juneau in 2002 on its way to the Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
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