{"id":17878,"date":"2024-11-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=17878"},"modified":"2024-11-18T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:35:39","slug":"attorney-general-labrador-files-brief-to-protect-students-free-speech-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/attorney-general-labrador-files-brief-to-protect-students-free-speech-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Labrador Files Brief to Protect Students&#8217; Free Speech Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>[BOISE] \u2013 <\/strong>Idaho Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador filed a friend-of-the-court brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court, along with 17 other states, to protect students&#8217; First Amendment free speech rights in the case of <em>L.M. v. Town of Middleborough.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A middle school student in Massachusetts wore a t-shirt to school that had the message, &#8220;There are only two genders.&#8221; School officials told the student he couldn&#8217;t wear the shirt. The student then put tape over the word &#8220;two,&#8221; so the message read, &#8220;There are only (censored) genders,&#8221; but school officials banned that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Students don&#8217;t surrender their Constitutionally protected rights to free speech upon entering a school,&#8221; said Attorney General Labrador. &#8220;The school actively promoted gender identity theory in the classroom but refused to tolerate an alternative opinion from a student. That&#8217;s blatant viewpoint discrimination and it&#8217;s unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brief from the attorneys general asks the Supreme Court to hear the case after a lower court sided with the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In referring to the 1969 case, known as <em>Tinker<\/em>, the brief argues that the Supreme Court ruled that, &#8220;a student may express his mind &#8216;if he does so without materially and substantially interfering with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school and without colliding with the rights of others.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Carolina and West Virginia co-led the brief and were also joined by the attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[BOISE] \u2013 Idaho Attorney General Ra\u00fal Labrador filed a friend-of-the-court brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court, along with 17 other states, to protect students&#8217; First Amendment free speech rights in the case of L.M. v. Town of Middleborough. A middle school student in Massachusetts wore a t-shirt to school that had the message, &#8220;There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":13446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[260,253],"class_list":["post-17878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-first-amendment","tag-raul-labrador","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17880,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17878\/revisions\/17880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}