Facts Matter

A few years ago, two brothers who went to middle school together came to class wearing hooded sweatshirts that said “Let’s Go Brandon” on them.

Now, most people know the origin of that phrase—and what it actually means—but here’s the question: In a school context, is it appropriate?

Schools naturally do have policies against profanity, and they can send children home for violating them.

However, the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” doesn’t actually contain profane words. If someone reads it, and they don’t happen to know the backstory, then it doesn’t even mean anything to them.

The school officials did not see it that way, though, and they ordered the brothers to remove the sweatshirts.

This then led to a lawsuit by the brothers' parents over free speech. Can school administrators exercise this much discretion when deciding whether something is vulgar?

This case appears to be far-reaching, as evidenced by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to take it up.

Let's go through the details together.

Last week, Virginia became the 18th state to pass a bill that will effectively eliminate the Electoral College.
Unbeknownst to most people, there is a serious effort in this country to make the presidential election a simple popular vote. Even though most people have never heard about this effort, it’s actually already 82 percent complete. Meaning the Electoral College is truly at risk of getting completely scrapped in the near future.
The ironic thing about this is that it may not necessarily be unconstitutional. Instead, this method is using a loophole in the way that the constitution set up our federalist system.
This effort is officially called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (otherwise known as the NPVIC)—it’s an agreement between the states that join to give their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the popular vote at the national level.

Some recent reporting has stirred a lot of online controversy, including when it was publicized that the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) found it inconclusive that the bullet recovered from Charlie Kirk’s autopsy matched the rifle belonging to Tyler Robinson. The defense lawyers are jumping on this finding ahead of the preliminary hearing. Let’s go through what this likely means, as well as some other developments in the case.

Charlie Kirk Film:

https://ept.ms/CharlieKirkDoc

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

The U.S. Supreme Court has just issued a new landmark ruling. Specifically, in an 8-to-1 decision, the Supreme Court found that Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” is unconstitutional—and violates the first amendment rights of Christian therapists.

Let’s go through the details of this particular case—as well as what it means for the rest of the country.

A Christian photographer in Kentucky was awarded $800,000 (in a case that lasted six years) because of unconstitutional demands placed on her by the city of Louisville.

Let's go through the specifics of the ordinance they had on the books, what it would have required her to do, and the legal precedents that forced it to be overturned.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.