Supreme Court turns away free speech case involving high school club's "Defund Planned Parenthood" posters

cbsnews.com·Melissa Quinn
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This article reports on a U.S. Supreme Court decision not to hear a case about a high school in Indiana that blocked a student anti-abortion group from posting flyers with the message 'Defund Planned Parenthood.' The school said it restricted the flyers to avoid appearing to endorse a political message, and the article presents this reasoning while not comparing it to how other political messages from student groups might have been treated. It leans on school officials and legal decisions to support the restriction, making the policy seem reasonable and lawful, but doesn't fully explore whether similar rules are applied to all student speech.

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