The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protects Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures. The Supreme Court must now decide whether it was reasonable for school officials to conduct a strip search of a 13-year-old girl who was suspected of carrying ibuprofen to school. Comments made by some of the justices hearing the case and the journalists covering it have been disquieting.
The nature of these reactions illustrates both that our society is still too tolerant of assaults on the dignity of women and that institutions such as the Supreme Court that lack significant input from women are not equipped to recognize or to redress that problem.
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