The Elephant in the Room: Florida School Revokes The Parking Privileges Of Student With Trump Display On Truck JONATHAN TURLEY
We recently discussed the case of a Louisiana high school senior who had his parking space mural to President Donald Trump painted over by his school. Now a Florida senior has an equally troubling free speech case involving the Volusia County School District. Tyler Maxwell is suing the District after it barred him from parking his pickup truck with a large elephant in the back featuring Trump s name. The District declared that such political statements are now banned.The school district s position is at odds with cases protecting non-disruptive political statements or symbols. Many of us in the free speech community have long complained that the 1969 case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District is often dismissed in cases addressing the free speech rights of students. The famous decision declared that students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. Yet, school officials routinely try to regulate speech. Indeed, we just saw a Vermont district fire a principal for questioning the BLM movement on Facebook.
Jonathan Turley. Seems like a good man.