Supreme Court justices grapple with school speech case over cheerleader's profane Snapchat post

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to be leaning toward issuing a narrow ruling in the case of a student who was booted from her high school cheerleading team over an expletive-laden Snapchat post after she was cut from the varsity squad.

Levy's lawyer argued that the critical Supreme Court precedent Tinker v. Des Moines doesn't apply when a student is outside of school, otherwise students would be forced to "carry the schoolhouse on their backs ... everywhere they go." The lawyer for the school, meanwhile, said the "ubiquity" of the internet makes the time and place of a student's speech "irrelevant" and said the content of Levy's Snapchat disrupted the school environment But the justices appeared suspicious of the sweeping arguments from both sides, worrying alternatively about squashing students' rights outside of school or handcuffing schools in their efforts to address bullying or other harmful behaviors.