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Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today we travel to the spring of 1980, where the Carter-Reagan campaigns take a back seat to an act of disobedience committed by a 14-year-old girl in Piscataway, New Jersey. The highest court in the land has to decide, how are your 4th Amendment protections different when you happen to be a student? This episode features the voices of Professor Tracey Maclin from Boston University School of Law and Professor Sarah Seo from Columbia Law School.

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:03.7	Did you ever get in trouble at school for anything?
0:06.1	I had this exactly one incident and it's not worth.
0:10.0	It's definitely worth.
0:11.2	I knew a girl had the wrong answer.
0:14.3	It was like an out loud test and I indicated to her that she had the wrong answer
0:19.0	and the teacher said,
0:20.8	he had a macrothi ruins the day for everybody.
0:23.0	Oh my god.
0:23.7	I think I was in second grade.
0:25.4	I hacked into, I knew how to use DOS so I hacked into find out
0:29.3	the teacher passed works for the kids grades.
0:31.6	I can't believe you did that.
0:33.2	Yeah.
0:34.0	Wow.
0:34.8	I thought it was terrible about it.
0:36.0	Every episode we work on gives me another reason to fall in love with Supreme Court cases.
0:41.2	And today it's that a relatively minor offense
0:44.4	can rise through the court system to achieve the stature of landmark decision.
0:50.4	And the story of this case starts in spring 1980.
0:56.2	Empire Strikes Back is about to hit the theater.
0:58.4	Striped the death star but their story didn't end.
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