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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Back to School Protest Special

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

Slate Audio

News Commentary,, Government, News

4.63.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Student activism is back in America’s schools. Young people mobilizing around gun safety and social justice issues are heading back to school. We talk to Mary Beth Tinker, who took her fight for the right to protest at school all the way to the Supreme Court back in 1969. And we hear from noted First Amendment scholar Geoffrey R. Stone of the University of Chicago Law School, who tells us what rights students have to raise their voices—or wear t-shirt slogans—in schools today. Please let us know what you think of Amicus. Join the discussion of this episode on Facebook. Our email is amicus@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's what I like to tell kids around the country.

0:33.0

You don't have to be the most courageous person or if you can just use your little bit of courage, your tiny bit,

0:38.0

you'll be amazed what could happen.

0:41.0

Hi and welcome back to Amicus Lates Podcast about the court and the Supreme Court and the rule of law.

0:49.0

I'm Dahlia Lefick and I cover many of not most of those things for slate.

0:55.0

We've been spending this summer with some of our favorite books and some of our favorite people

1:00.0

that have connections to the Supreme Court.

1:03.0

This week we wanted to share an interview that I did with Mary Beth Tinker,

1:08.0

the famous arm-bend wearing student protester whose 60s arrow lawsuit became the hallmark litigation

1:15.0

around student protest and speech.

1:18.0

I think that because some of the listeners here are under the age of 18

1:23.0

and heading back to school in the next couple of days and weeks,

1:27.0

we thought this might be a really nice time to revisit questions of what can you say in a school protest.

1:34.0

So here we are.

1:35.0

Let me tell you about Mary Beth Tinker.

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