updated Fri. December 22, 2023
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Reason (blog)
April 4, 2018
Lyndon Johnson's effort to elevate the ethically challenged Abe Fortas to Chief Justice). But now Trump wants to finish the job by ending the legislative filibuster as well. He hectored Republicans to go nuclear (read Cato's Robert Levy's excellent primer on how that would work here) when the spending billÃâà...
Sun Sentinel
April 3, 2018
Des Moines, the court decided that there were limits to students' rights at school, but that “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as Justice Abe Fortas wrote. “You don't have zero privacy in school,”Ãâà...
Constitution Daily (blog)
March 28, 2018
Justice Abe Fortas said the juvenile detention and trial practices used by the state of Arizona widely violated due process clauses under the 14th Amendment and Fifth Amendment. Political free speech for students. At the height of the Vietnam War, Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old student at Warren HardingÃâà...
wgbh.org
March 25, 2018
It was hard to be real happy about it because the Vietnam War was raging, but the ruling by Abe Fortas was a beautiful statement of what education and democracy should be. And I knew that students would gain some rights with the ruling in this case. Howard: Does what's going on today resonate for you?
Politico
March 25, 2018
... McGeorge Bundy, Johnson's former national security adviser; Clark Clifford, President Harry Truman's White House counsel; New York lawyer Arthur Dean; former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon; Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas; ambassador-at-large Averell Harriman; former ambassador to SouthÃâà...
Constitution Daily (blog)
March 20, 2018
“In order for [a school] to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint,” Justice Abe Fortas said in Tinker. Nearly 50Ãâà...
Constitution Daily (blog)
March 16, 2018
In the 7-2 majority opinion, Justice Abe Fortas said public school students don't “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” While Fortas said these rights don't extend to conduct that “materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or invasionÃâà...
Esquire.com
March 14, 2018
Writing for the majority, Justice Abe Fortas declared: In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students in school, as well as out of school, are "persons" under our Constitution. They are possessed ofÃâà...
CNBC
March 14, 2018
In the case majority decision, Justice Abe Fortas writes, "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." This decision confirmed that it is unconstitutional to limit a student's freedom of expression so long as itÃâà...
Daily Local News
March 4, 2018
The national walkouts that students are currently organizing to call for new gun control legislation are commendable examples of “Generation Z” exercising its First Amendment freedoms. Unfortunately, students, teachers and other staff are likely to run up against legal limits around free speech and protestÃâà...
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
March 3, 2018
Bill Moyers, George Reedy, Jack Valenti, Joe Califano, Harry McPherson, Walter Jenkins and the other staff comprised LBJ's inner circle. Along with a network of New Deal Era friends like Jim Rowe, Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas, LBJ had a core of dedicated and pragmatic friends and staffers who were notÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
March 2, 2018
Justice Abe Fortas wrote that neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” But here's an early caution to those planning school walkouts and protests on school grounds: The “Tinker” decision and later court cases also ruled thatÃâà...
Port Huron Times Herald
March 1, 2018
The national walkouts that students are currently organizing to call for new gun control legislation are commendable examples of “Generation Z” exercising its First Amendment freedoms. Unfortunately, students, teachers and other staff are likely to run up against legal limits around free speech and protestÃâà...
Meridian Star
February 23, 2018
Justice Abe Fortas wrote that neither students nor teachers "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." But here's an early caution to those planning school walkouts and protests on school grounds: The Tinker decision and later court cases also ruled thatÃâà...
TIME
February 23, 2018
In 1969, the court ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as Justice Abe Fortas put it in the majority opinion for Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. At the center of the case was a 13-year-old from DesÃâà...
CBS News
February 20, 2018
More than 150 years later, Justice Abe Fortas resigned under threat of impeachment due to an ethics scandal. But Wright-Smith says that she hopes the success of the #MeToo movement will trigger a reassessment of the allegations against Thomas, who was accused by Hill and other women of grossÃâà...
Memphis Daily News
February 18, 2018
What would bring a Memphian on his own to The Lookout – the restaurant and bar at the top of the Pyramid? The view, of course. So after the obligatory walk outside to the views south along the riverfront and west across the river, I settled in Sunday for the view from within. I lined up with both of the treeÃâà...
Muncie Star Press
December 31, 1999
Des Moines Independent Community School District, where Justice Abe Fortas read, in the majority opinion, that students did not lose their First Amendment right to freedom of speech when they enter the school building. This opinion also stated that students have the right to peacefully protest as long as itÃâà...
The Boar
December 31, 1999
Bill Clinton appointed Ginsburg in 1993 and she became the second female justice to be confirmed to the Court, as well as being the first Jewish justice since the 1969 resignation of Justice Abe Fortas. The film will detail Ginsburg's journey to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice; it shall explore theÃâà...
Lewiston Sun Journal
December 31, 1999
Having grown up watching political scandals unfold in D.C., from the resignation of Justice Abe Fortas, to Texas con-man Billy Sol Estes, and eventually Watergate, it is now obvious that these political scandals are truly sophomoric when contrasted with the recent revelations of the illegal and corruptÃâà...
Winona Daily News
December 31, 1999
The national walkouts that students are currently organizing to call for new gun-control legislation are commendable examples of “Generation Z” exercising its First Amendment freedoms. Unfortunately, students, teachers and other staff are likely to run up against legal limits around free speech and protestÃâà...
