Question

The supreme court ruled 5-4 in favor of principal morse saying that schools have a legitimate interest in limiting speech that promotes drug use. justice stevens wrote about the case that.. "in my judgment, the first amendment protects student speech if the message itself neither violates a permissible rule nor expressly advocates conduct that is illegal and harmful to students. this nonsense banner does neither, and the court does serious violence to the first amendment in upholding—indeed, lauding—a school’s decision to punish frederick for expressing a view with which it disagreed." justice stevens is saying that...

Answer 1

Justice Stevens argued that student speech should be protected by the First Amendment unless it breaks specific rules or advocates for illegal, harmful actions. The banner in question did neither, implying that the school should not have punished the student.

Step-by-step explanation:

Justice Stevens, in his dissent regarding the court's decision supporting Principal Morse, asserted that the First Amendment should protect student speech unless it explicitly violates a rule or promotes illegal and harmful conduct. According to Stevens, the student's speech in question did not meet either of these criteria, thus it should not have been restricted by the school.

In his opinion, the school's punishment of Frederick for expressing a different viewpoint was a violation of his First Amendment rights.