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Posted on 03/28/2026 7:05:56 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Lower courts have ruled school can ban wearing such apparel as ‘can reasonably be interpreted as profane’
The case of two Michigan middle-school brothers who were told to remove their hoodies emblazoned with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The siblings are represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression which says the boys’ school violated their First Amendment rights.
The phrase was popularized during a 2021 NASCAR event when a crowd was shouting “F*** Joe Biden!” but the NBC interviewer told racer Brandon Brown they were yelling “Let’s go Brandon!”
A judge in 2024 ruled the phrase could “reasonably be interpreted” as profane.
Last October, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in a 2-1 decision, confirming the case was about “the vulgarity exception.”
Referencing the landmark Tinker free speech case, Judge John Nalbandian (a Trump appointee) wrote “The Constitution doesn’t hamstring school administrators when they are trying to limit profanity and vulgarity in the classroom during school hours [… they’re not] powerless to prevent student speech that the administrators reasonably understand to be profane or vulgar.”
(Ironically, the brothers’ principal, Joseph Williams, had said he “was not aware that the school had experienced any disruption from students wearing ‘Let’s Go Brandon’” sweatshirts.)
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If “Let’s go Brandon” is profane because it SUBSTITUTES something for the actual profanity, then literally every time someone says “Shoot” “Darn” “Heck” “Gosh Darn it” and so on they are guilty of the same crime. Even if you say “Well, I woke up” the way the “Well” is used in that phrase is a substitute for “Hell” and would be considered a profanity under that insanity. I guarantee you can catch the judge or anyone else playing the hypocrite a dozen times an hour in ordinary conversation.
“Golly Gee, Holy Moses” in the words of Henry Aldrich should be bleeped out now.
Which is more offensive:
1. A “Let’s Go Brandon!” sweatshirt.
2. A rainbow themed LGBTQ sweatshirt (sodomy, pedophilia, transvestism).
And it did not make fun or mock anything that was sacred. So not profane.
Now the school can make a rule that you can not wear apparel with visible writing on it unless issued by the school and that would be legal.
This however is very legally iffy waters.
You are on to something here. Public schools have the right to set reasonable dress codes. But they must be consistent.
If they allow an LGBTQ shirt, then they must also allow a MAGA shirt and a “Let’s Go Brandon!” shirt.
No favoritism.
I would simply argue that I am a Brandon Brown fan. Let them try to disprove it.
Or even Sacre Bleu.
Hey, we were just trying to be LGBTQ-friendly
LGBTQ
Let’s
Get
Brandon
To
Quit
This all happened because the pinko namby-pamby school administrators got their feewings hurt.
Those who are offended have a duty to avert their eyes.
So says SCOTUS
When I attended a Catholic School for a week we couldn’t wear anything written on our clothes or graphic designs. One kid showed up with a pair of jeans with a graphic leather label. The Mother cut it off. That is how all schools should be run. No politics or graphics at the school. They are free to wear that off campus. EOM.
There is a very simple way to avoid ALL these stupid issues. SCHOOL UNIFORMS.
You’re welcome!
That this case against the middle schoolers' 'Let's Go Brandon' sweatshirt got all the way up to the Supreme Court indicates how corrupt and traitorous the lower court judges have become.
“Shoot” “Darn” “Heck” “Gosh Darn it” ...
Those words (”minced oaths”) were taboo in our house, including “gee”.
These judges sound like Fentynales. “Let’s Go Brandon!” is “profane? Those judges have been polishing too many Democrat knobs. Sickos.
Agreed.
If the student wore “F Trump” hoodies do you think the result would be the same?
Now if the brothers were wearing a pride flag hoodie, would the school say anything? ARTH...
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