The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from two Michigan middle school students barred from wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts, leaving a lower-court ruling in place that the slogan could be prohibited as vulgar speech.
\n\nThe justices gave no reason for denying the appeal. The case involved students ordered to strip off anti-Joe Biden apparel at Tri County Middle School in Howard City, roughly 35 miles north of Grand Rapids. The denial leaves a lower-court ruling intact. In October 2025, the Cincinnati-based Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had held, 2-1, that the school could treat the phrase as vulgar even though its message was political.
\n\n“In the schoolhouse, vulgarity trumps politics,” wrote Judge John Nalbandian, a Trump appointee, in a majority opinion joined by Judge Karen Nelson Moore, an appointee of President Bill Clinton.
\n\nThe slogan spread in the fall of 2021 after NBC reporter Kelli Stavast, interviewing NASCAR driver Brandon Brown following the Xfinity Series’ Sparks 300, characterized a crowd chanting “F— Joe Biden” as cheering “Let’s Go Brandon.”
\n\nThe mother sued in 2023, saying the district violated her sons’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. A teacher and an assistant principal had told the brothers to take…
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