Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates May 2007 No. 5 Vol. 10
Student Speech

Student Speech

The First Amendment at School

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(Excerpted from Supreme Court Debates, May 2007)
On January 24, 2002, during a school-sanctioned viewing of the Olympic Torch Relay, Juneau-Douglas High senior Joseph Frederick held up a sign that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” across the street from his school. Five years later, nine U.S. Supreme Court justices debated what the sign meant — and whether Frederick’s First Amendment rights were violated when the school’s principal made him take it down.
Since 1968, student speech has been governed by Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, a landmark case in which the Cou…

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