The First Amendment Right to Read and Access Ideas in Public Schools

A number of lower court decisions drawing on that authority have found there is a first amendment right to read and access ideas in public libraries. In Missouri students bid for a preliminary injunction in suit over school library book removals, the judge questioned their reliance on the plurality opinion in the island trees case. Do you fear a time when island trees will no longer be controlling law? Because it was just a plurality opinion,. Well, i would argue that subsequent cases and other decisions throughout the federal court system have upheld the idea that students don't shed the first amendment right when they enter the schoolhouse gate. But also, ultimately, i would have faith that courts would recognize that broad censorship of ideas in