William J. Brennan Jr. was an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1956 until his retirement from active service in 1990. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him to the Court.
We have documented 1 statement by William J. Brennan Jr., in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: U.S. Supreme Court justice, dissenting with Justices Marshall and Blackmun
Condemned
Statement summary
Brennan argues that the principal violated students' speech rights and that the deletion was insufficiently tailored.
“He violated the First Amendment's prohibitions against
censorship of any student expression that neither disrupts
classwork nor invades the rights of others, and against any
censorship that is not narrowly tailored to serve its purpose.”
The Supreme Court split over a principal's removal of pages from a school-sponsored newspaper. The majority accepted the decision as reasonably related to educational concerns. The dissent called the deletion unconstitutional censorship.
