supreme court?

Question

i need two quotes from the supreme court, and its significance. can anyone help me????

Answer 1

Chief Justice Roberts, “The banner could be... interpreted by those viewing it, as promoting illegal drug use, and that interpretation is plainly a reasonable one.” June 25, 07 in the Alaskan student case where the student had a banner stating "Bong hits for Jesus" OFF school property. He was suspended for it and the court upheld that suspension.

Significance = students don't have free speech even OFF school property.

2.
• By 5-4, the Court ruled voluntary integration of schools is unconstitutional. The case stemmed around 2 cities’ school district plans using race to place students in schools and did that practice violate the equal protection clause of the constitution. In the 1954 precedent case that outlawed school segregation, Brown versus Board of Education, a school can use a student’s race in assigning schools if there is a narrowly tailored, compelling reason. The school districts argued they had compelling interests in reducing racial isolation in their schools, in achieving a diverse student body population and in combating the effects of segregated housing patterns. The majority said race assignment is not narrowly tailored to achieve race balance and that is not compelling. The dissent said if the interests the school districts asserted are not compelling then what is and the plans were narrowly tailored in being a very limited and diminished use of race. Basically, the two sides disagreed over what circumstances entail the kind of compelling interest that justifies using race as a factor in devising a government policy.

Dang it.. I can't find the quote that goes with that case... it was something like "never in the history of the court, have so few changed so much, so fast"... by one of the justices referring to how the new far right conservative court was undoing years of legislation.

Answer 2

The Supreme Court is the ultimate bastion of justice after all the lower courts had jailed in the proper administration of justice.