These goons couldn’t care less about the US Constitution. They’re worse then murders in my mind.
This is not a constitutional issue as the government is not involved and it is instead a property rights issue.
However, those who demanded the shirts be removed and those who removed the shirts are Nanny State Thug Wanna Be’s.
This was in a privately owned mall. All merchants have contractual agreements with the mall specifying what they can and can’t sell, what kind of signage they can and can’t put up, and spelling out that the mall management makes the ultimate decision. Part of this is to maintain the image of the mall — different malls very deliberately craft and maintain certain demographic images, i.e. very upscale, sort of upscale, inexpensive and convenient, etc. Another huge part of it is because each merchant has contracted and paid for specific rights re limiting competing merchants, either anywhere in the mall, or in larger malls within a specified distance of the merchant. Private contracts are private contracts and the Constitution doesn’t put any limits on the terms they may contain.