Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Sotomayor must think it's okay for school board officials to moderate free speech — after all, they're not Congress...
Oh! Well now. This clears things up for me. Totally.
I now SUPPORT Sotomayor.
She has experience in ruling against douche-bags.
She will certainly have her hands full in our nations capital.
> In their opinion, the judges said they were “sympathetic” to her disappointment at being disqualified from running for Senior Class Secretary and acknowledged her belief that in this case, “the punishment did not fit the crime.”
Wrong call. The punishment did fit the crime. Children calling school superintendents “douche bags” is disrespectful. She has a right to Free Speech, but also a matching responsibility to show Respect for school authorities — or any adult, for that matter. Shame on her mom for enabling her rude behavior.
The school was right to bar this brat from running for Senior Class Secretary. Maybe next time she will keep a civil tongue in her head and show Respect for her elders.
So not only did Judge Sotomeyer get the Free Speech issue wrong, but she also got the answer right for all the wrong reasons — which is even worse!
should we start protesting her with douche bag parties?
The case went to court originally in 2007. This is from last year when the girl graduated from high school.
Read the cutline from this photo from 2008:
Lewis Mills High School, Burlington, CT: Graduating senior and Plaintiff Avery Doninger after shaking the hand of Principal and defendant Karissa Neihoff, who had just been suspended for two days because she discussed Doninger's personal information with a complete stranger on e-mail.Now, some might say maybe Karma is at work more so than Justice in Burlington, Conn's Regional School District #10. And yes, Neihoff should not be discussing information about a case and student outside of the school...
However, I think it seems that the School Board has WAY too much time on their hands, so they feel the need to regulate their students' AND TEACHERS' words over the Internet.
Perhaps the School District should make some cutbacks in the size of their Board ... or better yet, just stick to educating...
Sotomayor is 55 years old. She could be handing down A LOT of similarly flawed rulings like THIS one until she retires, probably in the mid-2020's.
The idea of that alone should bring ANY Conservative to his or her feet to help get the word out ...
... that even beyond her racism, even beyond her incompetence, Sotomayor's radical ideology is destructive to the freedoms bestowed to us in our Constitution!
Free speech is free speech, no matter who you are. Nor do minors lose their right to free speech (read the Tinker case, or the Hazelwood MO case) by virtue of being under 18.
What is the point of being conservative if you don't defend freedom?
