Your Point Being?
By It’s because of arguments of this quality that they found a civil liberties claim that Sam Alito (albeit superfluously) can support:
Matthew Wright, lawyer for the Safford school district, predicted the decision would have a “chilling effect” on administrators responding to threats of drugs.
The War on (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs being what it is, I’m less optimistic. But let’s hope so!
Then there’s this:
Francisco Negron, lawyer for the National School Boards Association, said the decision could be confusing for school officials, who typically lack formal training in drugs yet would have to consider whether the contraband they seek is dangerous enough to do to a strip search.
Well, here’s an idea — you could err on the side of not performing arbitrary strip searches! I’m also going to guess that administrators’ lack of expertise and training and their inability to correctly assess the dangers of drug use somehow never come up when they’re imposing draconian penalties and performing humiliating searches on students in the name of combating the dangers of drugs…