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March 20, 2007
Justices contemplate bong hits and JesusLots of press coverage of yesterday's oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case. If you're living under a rock and haven't heard of this one, BoardBuzz wrote about it here and here. Here's a summary of more recent coverage, with links back to links back to links of background info.
Amazingly, the crowds at the Court were bigger for this case than they were for the diversity cases in December. Even more remarkably, your NSBA legal team reports no sightings of this stuff outside the Court. DC's street vendors may have missed some sales opportunities.
USA TODAY's Joan Biskupic reports on the arguments here. A humorous account is provided by the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, here. For Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times and others, the interesting angle is that some groups on the religious right have sided with the student when the Bush administration is backing the school board (which is represented pro bono by Ken Starr).
BoardBuzz will have more on the case tomorrow, but for now, here is NSBA’s press statement and, once again, its amicus brief to the Supreme Court. And listen to this interesting discussion from NPR's Day to Day, which features Dahlia Lathwick of Slate, Principal Robert Littlefield of Portsmouth High School in Rhode Island, and past student plaintiffs in some of the landmark free speech cases. Littlefield has some thought-provoking observations about where schools are coming from nowadays. The past plaintiffs include Matt Fraser, who, lo and behold, today is "a high school teacher who is sympathetic to the administrators' need to maintain order" but who recommends using persuasion with students in situations like these.
Posted March 20, 2007 3:46 PM | School Law
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