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How Viral Flag Topics Got to the Top of the Docket

Kyle Palmer
17 min readNov 30, 2021

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On September 30th, 2021, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to Shurtleff v. Boston. The case concerns whether flying a non-governmental flag on government property would be considered government speech. While some will see this case in religious terms — the plaintiff is suing to fly the Christian Flag — it may be…

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