Monday, March 19, 2007

Reports and Transcript of "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" Arguments in Supreme Court

Accounts of today's Supreme Court oral arguments in Morse v. Frederick (see prior posting) have been posted by the Student Press Law Center, the Associated Press; and Education Week. The full transcript of the oral arguments is also available online. The Education Week report says:
Justice Stephen G. Breyer seemed to capture the court’s concerns.... "It's pretty hard to run a school where kids go around at public events publicly making a joke out of drugs," Justice Breyer told Douglas K. Mertz, the lawyer representing former high school student Joseph Frederick.... [However] Justice Breyer said he worried that if he took the student’s side, "we’ll suddenly see people testing limits all over the place in the high schools. But a rule that's against your side may really limit people's rights on free speech. That’s what I’m struggling with."