Snapchat and the Schoolhouse Gate
After a high school student with initials B.L. was suspended from the cheer team over a snap, she sued her school for violating her First Amendment rights and appealed up to the U.S. Supreme Court; the Court heard arguments in that case this week. Host Jeffrey Rosen recapped the argument with Will Creeley, legal director at Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and Francisco Negrón, chief legal officer at the National School Boards Association.

Voting Rights Today

Experts discuss the constitutional issues potentially presented by state voting laws passed recently, and what the Supreme Court might say. Theodore Johnson of the Brennan Center for Justice; Rich Lowry of the National Review; Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute and Kim Wehle, author of What You Need to Know About Voting—And Why, join Jeffrey Rosen.

Cheerleader Case Presents Free-Speech Test for Public Schools by Scott Bomboy

How Congress Created an Army of Millions in 1917 by Nicholas Mosvick

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From the National Constitution Center:
The First Amendment

"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."

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