“Cowboys Gear Won’t Fly at Polls”

The Dallas Morning News offers this report. Thanks to a reader for passing this along. The reader wonders how this can be constitutional under the First Amendment. In Burson v. Freeman, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on electioneering activities within 100 feet of the polling place. The case was one of those unusual cases where the Court applied strict scrutiny (because of the First Amendment in this case) and the government still won.

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