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Texas AG backs school district that expelled student who refused to stand for Pledge of Allegiance https://nydn.us/2OhXAOE
I know what you're thinking:
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official...can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_State_Board_of_Education_v._Barnette …
But I saw a Twitter post somewhere about a case in Florida along similar line. Of course I can't find it right now.
Full disclosure: IANAL.
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Texas principal wins ‘Muzzle’ award for expelling Pledge of Allegiance student protester
by SARAH RANKIN, Associated Press Monday, May 7th 2018
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Texas principal accused of expelling a student who stayed seated during the Pledge of Allegiance and a Utah high school accused of censoring its student newspaper have been bestowed Jefferson Muzzles, tongue-in-cheek awards from a free-speech group.
The Charlottesville, Virginia-based Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression on Sunday announced the seven winners of its Muzzles, given annually to those the group deems the previous year's most egregious offenders of free expression.
The group said in a statement that 2017 was a "perilous year" for free speech in America, citing college students' attempts to silence unpopular speakers and what it called the Trump administration's campaign to "vilify and delegitimize the press."
But "when we look back on 2017, it will likely be remembered as a year in which both protest speech and anti-protest rhetoric simultaneously rose to levels not seen in decades," said Clay Hansen, the center's executive director.
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