Justices rule for student in ‘cursing cheerleader’ case

[Drummie123]

This is the latest example of where our justice system falls short and where Christianity is too weak to save our society from degradation. So, this will breed other examples of degradation over time and we will all lament how bad things are getting, but nothing will seem capable of stopping the slide to a Sodom and Gomorrah state.

Jesus is the answer.


Justices rule for student in ‘cursing cheerleader’ case
By MARK SHERMAN

6/23/21



FILE - In this April 4, 2021, file photo provided by the American Civil Liberties Union, Brandi Levy wears her cheerleading outfit as she looks at her mobile phone outside Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pa. The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, June 23, 2021, that the public school wrongly suspended Levy from cheerleading over a vulgar social media post she made after she didn't qualify for the varsity team. (Danna Singer/ACLU via AP, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the case of the cursing cheerleader, the Supreme Court notched a victory for the free speech rights of students Wednesday, siding with a high school student whose vulgar social media post got her kicked off the junior varsity squad.

The court voted 8-1 in favor of Brandi Levy, who was a 14-year-old freshman when she expressed her disappointment over not making the varsity cheerleading team with a string of curse words and a raised middle finger on Snapchat.

Levy, of Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, was not at school when she made her post, but she was suspended from cheerleading activities for a year anyway. In an opinion by Justice Stephen Breyer, the high court ruled that the suspension violated Levy’s First Amendment freedom of speech rights. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, noting he would have upheld the suspension.

The justices did not foreclose schools from disciplining students for what they say off campus, though they did not spell out when schools could act. An earlier federal appeals court ruling in this case would have barred public schools from punishing off-campus speech.

Despite ruling in Levy’s favor, Breyer wrote that “we do not believe the special characteristics that give schools additional license to regulate student speech always disappear when a school regulates speech that takes place off campus. The school’s regulatory interests remain significant in some off-campus circumstances.”

The case drew extra interest at a time of remote learning — because of the coronavirus pandemic — and a rising awareness of the harmful effects of online bullying.

The decision was a strong endorsement of students’ right to speak freely, which the court first expressed more than a half century ago in defending armbands worn by high school students in protest of the Vietnam War, said Abner Greene, a constitutional law professor at the Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan.

“Students can engage in all kinds of critical or dissenting commentary, whether about the Vietnam War or the student cheerleading team, without losing their free speech rights. And it doesn’t matter where they say it,” Greene said.

The case arose from Levy’s posts, one of which pictured her and a friend with raised middle fingers and included the repeated use of a vulgarity to complain that she had been left off the varsity cheerleading squad.

“F——— school f——— softball f——— cheer f——— everything,” she wrote near the end of her freshman year, from a local convenience store, on a Saturday. Now 18, Levy recently finished her first year of college.

Levy’s parents filed a federal lawsuit after the cheerleading coach learned of the posts and suspended her from the junior varsity team for a year. Lower courts ruled in Levy’s favor, and she was reinstated.

The school district appealed to the Supreme Court after the broad appellate ruling that said off-campus student speech was beyond schools’ authority to punish.

The dispute is the latest in a line of a cases that began with Tinker v. Des Moines, the Vietnam-era case of a high school in Des Moines, Iowa, that suspended armband-wearing students. In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court sided with the students, declaring they don’t “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

The court also held then that schools retained the authority to restrict speech that would disrupt the school environment.

Wednesday’s ruling basically adopted the reasoning of Judge Thomas Ambro of the 3rd U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Philadelphia. Ambro agreed with the other two judges who decided Levy’s case that the suspension was unwarranted, but only because what she did was not disruptive either to the cheerleading team or school.

Breyer wrote that Levy’s case seemed less serious than its Vietnam-era predecessor.

“It might be tempting to dismiss B. L.’s words as unworthy of the robust First Amendment protections discussed herein. But sometimes it is necessary to protect the superfluous in order to preserve the necessary,” he wrote, using Levy’s initials because that was how she was identified in the original lawsuit. Levy has granted numerous interviews allowing her name to be used.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-c...4d7d33c29a9e0e

[Drummie123]

[Jack]

Thank God and Praise Be To Jesus that the Ministry of Thought can arrest these people and bring them to a nearby Christian Re-Education Center.

[Trumpet]

Crazy Trump is mankind's last hope to preserve Liberty.

[Trumpet]

This is the latest example of where our justice system falls short and where Christianity is too weak to save our society from degradation. So, this will breed other examples of degradation over time and we will all lament how bad things are getting, but nothing will seem capable of stopping the slide to a Sodom and Gomorrah state.

Jesus is the answer.


Justices rule for student in ‘cursing cheerleader’ case
By MARK SHERMAN

6/23/21



FILE - In this April 4, 2021, file photo provided by the American Civil Liberties Union, Brandi Levy wears her cheerleading outfit as she looks at her mobile phone outside Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pa. The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, June 23, 2021, that the public school wrongly suspended Levy from cheerleading over a vulgar social media post she made after she didn't qualify for the varsity team. (Danna Singer/ACLU via AP, File)




https://apnews.com/article/supreme-c...4d7d33c29a9e0e

So now Trumpian Christianity is the answer.

[Drummie123]

So now Trumpian Christianity is the answer.

You ridicule it yet you have no suggestions to make things better.

[TOP]

Most sport teams, including cheerleaders, have all inclusive constitutions/rules which both student and parent sign prior to the beginning of the season... Being on a team, representing your school, is a privilege....
If this school's athletic programs didn't have one, they will now...

[Trumpet]

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You deifying a low life scum the likes of Donald Trump, isn't going to make things any better.

[Drummie123]

Crazy Trump is mankind's last hope to preserve Liberty.

I think you need a few dozen additional emojis for your comment to be taken seriously.

[Drummie123]

Most sport teams, including cheerleaders, have all inclusive constitutions/rules which both student and parent sign prior to the beginning of the season... Being on a team, representing your school, is a privilege....
If this school's athletic programs didn't have one, they will now...

Thanks for the info!

[Drummie123]

Thank God and Praise Be To Jesus that the Ministry of Thought can arrest these people and bring them to a nearby Christian Re-Education Center.

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What is your solution to the problem?

[NiftyNiblick]

Fuck the pom poms, sweetheart.

Cheer yourself on, not some meathead jocks.

As a former one myself, I can promise you that most of them aren't worth the trouble.

[Phantasmal]

You ridicule it yet you have no suggestions to make things better.

Christianity has been the dominate religion in America since it’s inception, so if you believe we are in decline, Jesus obviously isn’t the answer.

[Jack]

The code for your posted image is:

: nolovejesus :

What is your solution to the problem?

I think it's pretty clear that these Slut/Whores need the Salvation of Jesus. Only through Scripture is there any Way to the Kingdom of God and Eternal Life.

[Jack]

Christianity has been the dominate religion in America since it’s inception, so if you believe we are in decline, Jesus obviously isn’t the answer.

Americans have turned their back on Jesus. This is a direct result of that.