Supreme Court rejects request to hear case of school district banning 'Let's Go Brandon' sweatshirts

The Supreme Court has rejected a request to hear a challenge to a school district’s ban on shirts with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” a riff on a crude comment about Democrat Joe Biden when he was president.

The request was made by a Michigan mother who says the ban is a First Amendment violation. The high court rejecting the case was reported Monday.

The school told her two sons to take off the sweatshirts she bought them for Christmas in 2022, according to the Associated Press. 

Lower courts have upheld the ban, finding the veiled vulgarity of the phrase – "F --- You Joe Biden” – allows schools to ban it. 

Plaintiff attorneys argued that the decision wrongly gives school officials wide latitude to squelch political speech based on their personal ideas of what is vulgar. 

The school district argued messages with lewd implications have no place in school.

The phrase originated in 2021, when people in the crowd at a NASCAR race chanted the obscenity ed at Biden, and a TV sports reporter said they were calling out “Let’s Go, Brandon,” apparently thinking they were chanting for driver Brandon Brown, who had just won a race, the wire service also reports.