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Supreme Court declines First Amendment case of students forced to remove ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirts
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Key Points:
- The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from two Michigan middle school students who were ordered to remove "Let's Go Brandon" sweatshirts, leaving in place a lower court ruling favoring the school district's authority to regulate potentially offensive speech.
- The phrase "Let's Go Brandon" is a right-wing euphemism for an expletive directed at President Joe Biden, and the students' family sued alleging First and Fourteenth Amendment violations after school officials asked them to remove the sweatshirts.
- The case could have further defined student free speech rights in schools, building on precedents like Tinker v. Des Moines and a 1986 ruling allowing schools to prohibit vulgar or offensive language in certain contexts.
- Separately, the Court also rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, convicted for the 2015 Charleston church shooting, who argued the trial judge should have recused himself; Roof remains on federal death row.
