Posted on 03/30/2015 7:53:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Supreme Court has denied an appeal from former California high school students who were ordered to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out during a celebration of the Cinco de Mayo holiday at school.
The justices did not comment Monday in leaving in place an appellate ruling that found that school officials acted appropriately because their concerns about racial violence outweighed students’ freedom of expression rights. Administrators feared the American-flag shirts would enflame (sic) the passions of Latino students celebrating the Mexican holiday. …
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So SCOTUS says wearing an American flag on a shirt can now be prohibited?
concerns about racial violence outweighed students’ freedom of expression rights”
...What would these “justices” have said in 1775? Shooting at the British could cause turmoil?
Apparently, if the child is incarcerated in a gruberment indoctrination center...
Yes, and they were too scared or too indignant to comment.
“school officials acted appropriately because their concerns about racial violence outweighed students’ freedom of expression rights”
The death of freedom in one sorry statement.
The students should just wear the shirts anyway.
Face it, that school is worthless and they’d be better off getting a real education elsewhere.
As for the judges...they have names.
And addresses.
It is long past time they start being treated like libs treat us.
Yep. That “Freedom of Speech” thingie? Meh. IF it applies - it’s only to illegals.
We need a POTUS who respects the U.S. Constitution and will place those who respect the U.S. Constitution on the Supreme Court.
TED CRUZ - MORE THAN QUALIFIED TO BE POTUS - 2016
http://www.tedcruz.org/
Pretty impressive...
• Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 - May 2008, Cruz was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the entire country, not to mention the longest tenure in Texas history.
• Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.
• Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court
• Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States
• Described as a ‘superb’ constitutional lawyer, the man’s considerable skills and laser-like focus were on display for all when he took oily reptile Eric Holder by the neck and made him
answer the damn question.
• In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
• Cruz presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
• In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the majority of the 2003 Texas redistricting plan. Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
• Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission
• Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign.
• Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation
• Ted Cruz is currently junior US Senator from Texas. In order to win the 2012 Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, Cruz had to defeat Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst -heavily favored/backed by the DC old-guard GOP- in the Republican primary runoff. In the event, TEA Party favorite Cruz crushed Dewhurst, 57-43%...
he then beat Democrat Paul Sadler in the general election by a similar margin, 56-41. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.
• AWARDS: “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) “50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008) “25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010) “20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
• On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He is now spearheading efforts in the Senate to have root-and-branch...
Godspeed, Senator Cruz- I’m all in.
So. No racial violence will happen when Mexicans wear their flag T-shirt but violence will happen when American kids wear a US flag T-shirt. Got it.
Free speech is so dead in this country
“...because their concerns about racial violence outweighed students’ freedom of expression rights.”
This is really sick. What has happened to the MEANING OF THE CONSTITUTION???
This has already been through a federal appeals court last year. I haven’t heard of state supreme courts overturning or upholding the decisions of federal appeals courts or even having power over them.
Slippery slope on steroids here. Are we to gather from this ruling that - for example - if enough people react angrily to a certain group of Americans exercising their legal right to vote; those voting rights will be stripped away since the "concern" over the potential violence trumps the constitution?
An extreme example perhaps, but that is the implication here.
Not so extreme.
I'm not surprised the courts would uphold district policies to secure the school. The question that still hasn't been answered is that if simply wearing an American flag is enough to spark worries of inciting violence, then why hasn't the district banned Cinco de Mayo celebrations in school? It obviously brings instability into the school and associated security risks.
Still think they’re gonna have the guts to shut-down Obamacare?
I would not call that a good explanation; I’d call it a bigoted explanation not based in reality, since they said that Mexican students are prone to violence over free exercise of rights in the USA. The First Amendment plainly states that the kids with US flags on have a right to do so.
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