Snapchat and Free Speech at the Supreme Court

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 11, 2021

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case that could determine public school's abilities to police student's speech off campus. The case began when a young woman named Brandi Levy sent out an curse-laden Snapchat expressing her frustration at not making the Varsity cheerleading squad, and was suspended from the JV team. Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School & New Yorker contributing writer, joins us to discuss the case, known as Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.

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