Pro-Trump teen’s civil rights lawsuit against Pa. school district ends with confidential deal
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
A confidential resolution has ended a federal civil rights lawsuit by a Pennsylvania high school student who claimed she was suspended for wearing a face mask and a t-shirt bearing a pro-Trump slogans to class.
Morgan Earnest, a sophomore, filed that case against Mifflin County School District in U.S. Middle District Court in late October, about two weeks before the presidential election that was won by Democrat Joe Biden.
The 15-year-old Lewistown girl said school officials told her she was violating a district clothing policy, adopted just weeks earlier, that barred articles of clothing “which contain political speech or symbolize a particular political viewpoint, including but not limited to confederate flags and swastikas, as well as BLM logos or phrases associated with that movement.”