High School Students Told to HIDE Their American Flags, But They Are Fighting Back IN COURT!
By TPIWriter |
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court of the United States will discuss privately a request to review a ruling against a group of high school students from California.
What did they do wrong? They dared to wear respectful, patriotic American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo… It was seen as disrespectful to other students who were celebrating their American heritage. Apparently, the American flag is racist.
This is outrageous, as students should NEVER be ashamed to display the American flag. And they have the legal fire power to make their point:
Lawyers for the students are asking the Supreme Court to reverse a ruling last year by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the school didn’t infringe on anyone’s constitutional rights.
As Law Blog recounted earlier, the suit was brought by three white students who attended Live Oak High School in northern California. On Cinco de Mayo in 2010, they showed up in t-shirts adorned in stars and stripes, outraging Mexican students who perceived the attire as a racist attack, court documents say.
Alerted to a potential fight brewing, an assistant principal asked the students to turn their shirts inside out or take them off. Several students refused to comply with the order and two of them had to go home for the day with excused absences. The next day, according to the Ninth Circuit’s opinion, those two students ”received numerous threats from other students” and missed school another day out of fear for their safety.[…]
The students are represented by the American Freedom Law Center, a conservative public interest law firm co-founded by lawyer Robert J. Muise.
“[T]here is never a legitimate basis for banning the display of an American flag on an American public school campus,” wrote Mr. Muise in a December petition to the high court. “And by incentivizing and rewarding violence as a legitimate response to unpopular speech, the Ninth Circuit’s decision is contrary to our foundational First Amendment principles and provides a dangerous lesson in civics to our public school students.”
via The Wall Street Journal
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