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Justices reject appeal by US flag-wearing students (Morgan Hill CA)
Associated Press ^ | Mar 30, 2015 9:44 AM EDT

Posted on 03/30/2015 7:53:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: Olog-hai

SOLD down the river again by the SCOTUS!

Tell me again what a conservative court this is....I keep forgetting.


21 posted on 03/30/2015 8:14:00 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Adder

I never told anyone such a thing.


22 posted on 03/30/2015 8:14:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

SCOTUS is now STOTUS.


23 posted on 03/30/2015 8:19:58 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Olog-hai

The Supreme Court, which has ruled that laws don’t mean what they say, expects to be taken seriously.

Right.


24 posted on 03/30/2015 8:20:30 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Timber Rattler
So SCOTUS says wearing an American flag on a shirt can now be prohibited?

Nope. They just didn't take this particular case, which left the appellate court decision (which is applicable only within the Ninth Circuit) in place. SCOTUS only grants a very, very small percentage (1-2%) of the cert petitions it receives.

25 posted on 03/30/2015 8:21:46 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Olog-hai

In the late 60’s they made the precise opposite ruling in a case that involved high-school students who protested Vietnam by wearing black armbands at school.

So....does the speech have to be anti-American to be permissible? Or do threats of violence trump the First Amendment?


26 posted on 03/30/2015 8:22:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

They should have took this one then and put it to rest for good.


27 posted on 03/30/2015 8:22:34 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I never believed that they had the guts to do it. You must be confusing me with someone else.


28 posted on 03/30/2015 8:23:38 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: SandRat

The link says US Supreme Court.

I don’t even fault the SCOTUS for upholding the school. The fault is not the SCOTUS for recognizing that school children on campus basically have no 1st amendment rights. The fault is with today’s PC climate as well as the commies running the schools. In my day, the hispanics would have been told to like it or lump it or take a hike.

It is the PC idiocy of modern life and the communist hijacking if the schools that is the problem, not the SCOTUS recognition that they don’t have the power to interfere in the schools where students do not have 1st amendment rights, per se.

I know my opinion will be very unpopular. Please don’t bother to respond.


29 posted on 03/30/2015 8:25:21 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Maybe the students could wear a French flag. They could remind any offended students that Mexico being conquered and under French rule in the 1860’s was simply a part of Mexican history and that they should celebrate their history! Vive la republique!


30 posted on 03/30/2015 8:26:13 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Timber Rattler

It was never very likely that the Court would take this case. This case reached the Court as a case that weighed freedom of expression against concerns about violence. There is a long line of cases that grant schools pretty broad powers to restrict student speech if they do so in the name of preventing violence. The current Court has never shown an interest in overturning that line of cases, so the most likely result in this case was that the Court would just let the appellate decision stand without taking on this case.


31 posted on 03/30/2015 8:28:24 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Timber Rattler

When American diplomats live in Mexico, they don’t send their children to Mexican schools. Same goes here. If a school names itself Mexican in America - get out and starve it to death.


32 posted on 03/30/2015 8:29:35 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Olog-hai
But let one or more wetbacks come to school (there's something wrong with that combination of words) wearing Aztlán tee shirts, and the administration would celebrate.

Not enough actual American kids willing to go beat the crap out of them to send the message: "Go Home To Mexico", I guess...

33 posted on 03/30/2015 8:54:40 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Timber Rattler
So SCOTUS says wearing an American flag on a shirt can now be prohibited?

Not really. They're just saying that they don't have any time for such "nonsense."

(Hint: the same thing.)

34 posted on 03/30/2015 9:01:25 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: Timber Rattler

I think this argument was because it was a Hispanic day - Cinco de Mayo, and wearing the American flag was supposed to be “insensitive” to the Hispanics.

WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING .. MORGAN HILL IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ALMOST TOTAL HISPANIC POPULATION.

From now on I plan to wear my American Flag Tee-Shirt on Cinco de Mayo.


35 posted on 03/30/2015 9:10:29 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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To: Olog-hai

Sorry...I was speaking rhetorically.

My apologies....


36 posted on 03/30/2015 9:20:10 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Why should EXEMPT SCOTUS care about the miserable
Americans and their children below them, who are not EXEMPT?

After all, EXEMPT SCOTUS and EXEMPT COngress
have made America a three-tier law system.

1. EXEMPT - no laws apply to these criminals
2. Criminal illegals - above all Americans
3. Americans (scum to Congress, SCOTUS and the criminals)
- useless to the EXEMPT, except for their organs.


37 posted on 03/30/2015 9:32:29 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s hope the American citizen students at the high school display the American flag prominently on “Cinco de Mayo” day.


38 posted on 03/30/2015 9:46:22 AM PDT by kenmcg
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Sounds like if the American kids threatened violence against anyone flying the Mexican flag, then the Mexican flag should be prohibited. Fat chance; any students protesting the Mexican flag would probably be thrown out of school and prosecuted.


39 posted on 03/30/2015 3:18:59 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Olog-hai

Do they say the pledge of allegiance in school anymore?


40 posted on 03/30/2015 3:38:39 PM PDT by winodog (hang on tight to Gods salvation)
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