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So how'd the case come about? In 1965, a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. The school board found out, and passed a preemptive ban. When the students got to school, they were asked to remove their armbands and suspended. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 24, 2023

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🗓️ On this day in 1969, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in the landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines and affirmed students' free speech rights. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 24, 2023

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We represented the students in a four-year court battle that ended in a win for students' First Amendment rights. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that students don't “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 24, 2023