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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Over Michigan School’s ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Sweatshirt Ban

A lower court ruled the school could reasonably consider the message vulgar in the school setting.

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Supreme Court won't hear case of students banned from wearing 'Let's Go Brandon' shirts. Pic via(@nypost)

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from two Michigan middle school students who were ordered to remove sweatshirts bearing “Let’s Go Brandon,” leaving an appeals court ruling favoring the school district in place.

School officials in 2022 ordered the brothers to remove the sweatshirts, arguing the phrase was understood as a substitute for an explicit profanity directed at then-President Joe Biden.

A lower court ruled the school could reasonably consider the message vulgar in the school setting.

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Judge David Bush, who dissented from the appeals court ruling, described the phrase as a “national inside joke” and compared it with the 1984 “Where’s the Beef?” advertising slogan. The students’ attorney argued that schools should not be able to restrict speech simply because it uses coded language or innuendo.

The Supreme Court’s decision leaves existing precedent on vulgar student speech intact and adds to recent cases in which the justices declined to intervene in disputes over student expression.

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