The Supreme Court is rebuffing an appeal from a Michigan woman fighting a school district’s ban on shirts with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” a jab at then-President Joe Biden with a coded reference to profanity.
The mother of two boys says their First Amendment rights were violated when they were told to take off the sweatshirts she bought them for Christmas in 2022.
A lower court disagreed, finding that the veiled vulgarity of the phrase, which functions as a stand-in for “F-— Joe Biden,” allows schools to ban it.
The woman’s attorneys argued that the decision wrongly gives school officials wide latitude to squelch political speech based on their personal ideas of what is vulgar. The phrase itself doesn’t contain any swear words or sexual implications, they said.
The school district urged the justices to reject the case, arguing that messages with lewd implications have no place in school, even if they touch on political topics. There has been evidence that some students wore clothing that read “Make America Great Again” or had messages supporting President Donald Trump, a Republican who lost the 2020 election to Biden, a Democrat.
On 9/11/02 I woke up late and forgot about 9/11.
No one would believe my “bad cop, no doughnut” shirt was a coincidence or that anyone would forget 9/11.
My attempts to ask what making fun of bad cops had to do with 9/11 in the first place didn’t help, but I got off of school, which was pretty cool…
How could you?! Alan Jackson would be very disappointed.
I forgot about those!
Yeah, I got called out immediately after making the time to take the “scenic route” that morning as well.
But anyways, it is a good example of how context needs to be part of it.
I didn’t have any ill intent, but I’d have spent all day explaining that and derailing every class I walked into.
Like, people had been joining up on their 17th birthday and waiting to graduate to deploy for a year by then, someone probably would have tried to fight me.
People don’t understand how crazy shit really was right after 9/11.