Trump Lawyer Jay Sekulow Ridiculously Demands SCOTUS Stop Teenagers from Using the F-Word – By Elura Nanso (Law and Crime) / Mar 15 2021
Trump lawyer and self-imagined rockstar Jay Sekulow filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States last week in the case of a cheerleader dropped from her team after Snapchatting “Fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything.” In it, he seems really triggered by the word “fuck.”
Sekulow’s brief, filed on behalf of his conservative group American Center for Law and Justice, is like the legal version of muzak: a vapid echo of something better that is rightfully ignored. This “Amicus Brief of the American Center for Law and Justice In Support of Neither Party” is an absurd pile of bullshit that I would pay good money to watch Stephen Breyer ridicule.
But first, a quick recap on the case.
A Pennsylvania high school student known in pleadings as “B.L.,” was shopping with friends on a Saturday afternoon in 2017 after she’d been cut from the varsity cheerleading squad. She posted a selfie in her Snapchat story showing herself and a friend extending their middle fingers. The caption read, “Fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything.” A second post said, “Love how me and [another student] get told we need a year of jv before we make varsity but that’s [sic] doesn’t matter to anyone else?”
