With the end of the Supreme Court's session comes a ruling that seems to be saying that yes, the First Amendment is applicable to student's free speech rights, but only if you don't talk about certain things. Confused? Yep. Me too.  -sm 

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From Jacob Sullum on reason.com:

The Supreme Court has ruled that Joseph Frederick, then a high school senior in Juneau, Alaska, did not have a First Amendment right to hold up a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner at an off-campus Olympic torch rally in 2002. Since students were let out of class to attend the rally (although Frederick himself came directly from home), the Court ruled, it was in effect a school event and they were still under school supervision. Because the banner sent a pro-drug message, the Court ruled, Principal Deborah Morris was within her rights when she crumpled it up and suspended Frederick for 10 days.

Read the full post on reason.com  

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