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Arresting free speech.(COMMENTARY)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20060502
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Byline: Bruce Fein, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes explained the folly of public school speech codes that seek to shield students from anguishing ideas or assertions in United States v. Schwimmer (1929):

"[I]f there is any principle of the Constitution that more importantly calls for the attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought - not free thought for those that agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." Yet the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sustained a school code that prohibited T-shirts disparaging ...

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