S2, E28: Justices Stumped By Cheerleader's Angry Snapchat
Apr 29, 2021•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
The case of a high school cheerleader whose profanity-laced Snapchat led to a suspension landed in front of the Supreme Court this week, where the justices struggled to balance punishment for disruptive online speech while avoiding all-out censorship and student expression. On this week’s episode of The Term we break down the oral argument, as well as a potential landmark gun rights case the high court added to its docket, and a “textualist showdown” that played out in an opinion handed down on Thursday involving federal immigration law.
