I'm Elizabeth Slattery, and I'm Tiffany Bates.

And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court,

what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

This week we're talking about political t-shirts,

Ginsburg bench-slapping the Second Circuit,

and we'll interview Utah Supreme Court Justice Tom Lee. So this is our bonus episode of the week because the Supreme Court... So many opinions.

Yeah, added an extra opinion day. Except it wasn't that many. Thursday of this week. Yes. So they

issued two opinions on Thursday of this week. So now we have 19 cases to go. only a few more days left. But one of the opinions was

one we've been anticipating Minnesota Voters Alliance versus Manske. So this is a First Amendment

case, the case of Andrew Selleck, who was involved with the local tea party in Minnesota. He wore a

please ID me button and a don't tread on me t-shirt with the Gadsden flag to the polls on election day in 2010.

And he was turned away from the polls and then he learned that there is a Minnesota law that bans voters from wearing hats, t-shirts, buttons, and other insignia apparel with political, anything that's

construed is political when they go to the polls on Election Day. So he challenged this in court,

and it ended up going all the way to the Supreme Court, and the court ruled 7-2, in an opinion

by Chief Justice John Roberts, that the Minnesota law violates the free speech

clause of the First Amendment. So that's good news for voters across America because there are

something like nine other states that have pretty similar laws. So to quickly go through what the

court held, they said that the polls are a non-public forum. So this means that the government

can place some content-based restrictions

on speech, but they have to have a reasonable basis. The state has to be able to articulate some

reasonable basis for why it is restricting the speech. And in an earlier case in the 90s, the court

had upheld a state's ban on active campaigning outside, immediately outside

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