{"id":191780,"date":"2009-06-25T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/25\/the-supreme-court-gets-one-right-8-1\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T22:24:00","slug":"the-supreme-court-gets-one-right-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/25\/the-supreme-court-gets-one-right-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Gets One Right, 8-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Clarance &#8220;The Speed Bump&#8221; Thomas being the dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding some very hostile questioning by justices at the arguments, the Supreme Court has ruled that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aKSsBXZ9Zb_8\">strip searching a 13 year old girl because someone alleged she was carrying Advil on her is just wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they also said that the plaintiff, Savana Redding, could not pursue her lawsuit, because at the time, the law was not clear.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">decades<\/span> that the supreme court has ruled for student&#8217;s rights at school.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the spectacle of a 13 year old <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">white<\/span> girl being stripped for possession of headache pills was too much for even them.<\/p>\n<p>I rather imagine that if Ms. Redding were black, the vote would have been closer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Clarance &#8220;The Speed Bump&#8221; Thomas being the dissent. Notwithstanding some very hostile questioning by justices at the arguments, the Supreme Court has ruled that strip searching a 13 year old girl because someone alleged she was carrying Advil on her is just wrong. Unfortunately, they also said that the plaintiff, Savana Redding, could not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,968,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-education","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}