The Justice Department has just dropped the challenge leveled against the Washington Redskins name.

As originally reported by the AP, the Supreme Court’s decision in Matal v. Tam was found in favor of the Asian-American band “the Slants”. The case of Matal v. Tam and the ongoing battle against the “RedSkins” team name were closely tied. The Redskins lawsuit was pending as “the Slants” lawsuit continued; had this case favored in the opposite direction, it would have leveled a major blow to free speech in America.

This was never just about the name of a band, or the name of a football team. This was about a tipping point in American culture that we might have never been able to recover from. Had the courts decided otherwise, it would have set a terrifying precedent whereby select groups of people would be able to regulate our speech, and the expression of everyone from athletes to artists. The left argued that one person’s expression was another’s “oppression” – that false argument was shut down today.

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