The Supreme Court Will Functionally Decide If You Can Wear Your #MAGA Hat To Vote [View all]

[Eliot Rosewater]

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/01/the-supreme-court-will-functionally-decide-if-you-can-wear-your-maga-hat-to-vote/

When was the last time a T-shirt changed the way you voted? Probably never, but the state of Minnesota thinks you’re much more impressionable. It’s so concerned that voters might influence others with their clothing choices that it prohibited wearing items that could be construed as “political” — such as a “Please I.D. Me” button or a “Don’t Tread on Me” T-shirt — from polling places on Election Day. Offenders are subject to civil fines of up to $5,000 and the possibility of criminal charges.

That’s the very opening of the article and you can see that it is fatally flawed in the first sentence. The ban on T-shirts is not because they “change the way” people vote. Nobody is wearing a T-shirt to change somebody’s mind.

Paragraph 1 in excerpt is responded to in paragraph 2, kind of confusing I know, read the article.