Saving Free Speech and Jesus  Religious and conservative groups
support the 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' banner under fire at the Supreme
Court  Responding to the argument that a school can cut off
student speech that is inconsistent with its "basic educational
mission," Alito said: "I find that a very, very disturbing
argument because schools . . . can [thereby] define their
educational mission so broadly that they can suppress all sorts
of political speech expressing fundamental values of the
students [that the principals judge to be] inconsistent with
their educational missions." Raise a glass to Sam Alito!  In
circulating his opinion among his fellow justices, I hope Alito
will remind them that Joe Frederick was intentionally across the
street from his high school, and that even in the otherwise
restrictive Kuhlmeier decision, that court recognized that "the
government could not censor [student speech] outside the
school"—including "streets, parks, and other traditional public
forums that time out of mind, have be