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Title: Sotomayor Ruled in "D-Bag Case"(no free speech for lowly serfs if it offends government Officials)
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http://www.nbcconnecticut.com
URL Source: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/ ... le-in-CT-free-speech-case.html
Published: May 30, 2009
Author: nbcconnecticut.com
Post Date: 2009-05-30 19:25:22 by freepatriot32
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Keywords: Sotomayor, douche bag, obama, public schools
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President Barack Obama’s nominee to fill a Supreme Court vacancy has yet another tie to Connecticut. She sided against a student in the infamous “douche bag” case, and that has upset some free-speech advocates. In August 2007, Judge Sonia Sotomayor sat on a panel that ruled against an appeal in Doninger v. Niehoff. Avery Doninger was disqualified from running for school government at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington after she posted something on her blog, referring to the superintendent and other officials as "douche bags" because they canceled a battle of the bands she had helped to organize. The case went to court and in March 2008, Sotomayor was on a panel that heard Doninger’s mother’s appeal alleging her daughter’s free speech and other rights were violated. Her mother wanted to prevent the school from barring her daughter from running. Sotomayor joined two other judges from the 2nd Circuit in ruling that the student’s off-campus blog remarks created a “foreseeable risk of substantial disruption” at the student’s high school and that the teenager was not entitled to a preliminary injunction reversing a disciplinary action against her, Education Week reports. In their opinion, the judges said they were “sympathetic" to her disappointment at being disqualified from running for Senior Class Secretary and acknowledged her belief that in this case, “the punishment did not fit the crime.” However, the judges decided they were not called upon to determine if school officials acted wisely. “As the Supreme Court cautioned years ago, “[t]he system of public education that has evolved in this Nation relies necessarily upon the discretion and judgment of school administrators and school board members,” and we are not authorized to intervene absent “violations of specific constitutional guarantees.” The ruling in this case has come under heavy criticism from some civil libertarians. Some say this case presents a solid rationale for rejecting Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York’s Second Circuit Court of Appeals to fill the seat of retiring Justice David Souter. “The continual expansion of the authority of school officials over student speech teaches a foul lesson to these future citizens,” Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, told the New Britain Herald. “I would prefer some obnoxious speech [rather] than teaching students that they must please government officials if they want special benefits or opportunities.” 
Avery Doninger and mother Lauren
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#1. To: All, *Jack-Booted Thugs* (#0)
What crime??? Avery and Lauren, and those kids in school, and their relatives (at least a good portion of them hopefully) are now on our side. Now they got an "education" on how rotten these rat bastards really are. Every.... fucking....time they pull this shit, more join us. Just so they don't lose their spirit because of these douche bags. .
It's a forum post, not a doctoral thesis. Click for Privacy and Preparedness files
Kiss the ring of authority. Would be nice if once in a while the "Justice" system protected the perogatives of the citizens instead of the power of the government.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" I find the judicious use of the term 'douche-bag' very effective and personally gratifying.
I'm neutral as to Sotomayor's nomination. However, I'm having difficulties finding any relatinship of Sotomayer and Doninger. Anyone have a site? Otherwise, I'd call this BS.
...with the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
Such a shame. I thought more about you.
Yes, it's so much more apt in a banal and abject sort of way than more masculine epithets such as puss bucket or skid mark.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. Well, shows how ignorant you are.
...with the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
but the sheiks would shriek and the barons would bellow if hemp was made legal...and people became mellow
#2. To: freepatriot32, all (#0)
“the punishment did not fit the crime.”
It's a fine line between being too specific and long winded and therefore too irritating to bother to read, and being too cryptic and therefore too irritating to try to interpret.
#3. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
The continual expansion of the authority of school officials over student speech teaches a foul lesson to these future citizens,” Jonathan Turley
#4. To: PSUSA (#2)
sonia sucks, bump
#5. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
#6. To: rack42 (#5)
I'm neutral as to Sotomayor's nomination.
#7. To: lodwick (#4)
I find the judicious use of the term 'douche-bag' very effective and personally gratifying.
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#8. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#6)
Such a shame. I thought more about you.
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