Pennsylvania's recent effort to make it easier for college graduates without formal teacher training to become licensed classroom instructors has sparked a
legal and rhetorical
fracas between school groups and top state officials.
I invite interested
legal bloggers — particularly free speech advocates, litigators, public defenders, district attorneys and experts in criminal defense — to turn their heads, however momentarily, from the
fracas surrounding Harriet Miers» nomination to the Supreme Court, and address this question: