But if we accept Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo's 1937 description of the First Amendment in Palko v. Connecticut — that it is "the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom” — then it is incumbent upon school boards to protect it even amid the devolution of our public discourse.
School Boards Must Protect the First Amendment
If it's true that school board meetings are now what a Bucks County director recently dubbed "America's verbal battlefield" then call keeping the First Amendment from getting bruised and bloodied in the fray is one of the great challenges district solicitors and elected officials face. And it's one of many.
But if we accept Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo's 1937 description of the First Amendment in Palko v. Connecticut — that it is "the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom” — then it is incumbent upon school boards to protect it even amid the devolution of our public discourse.
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But if we accept Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo's 1937 description of the First Amendment in Palko v. Connecticut — that it is "the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom” — then it is incumbent upon school boards to protect it even amid the devolution of our public discourse.
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