Federal Judge Rules Against High School After It Paints Over Student’s Trump Mural

Federal Judge Rules Against High School After It Paints Over Student’s Trump Mural
President Donald Trump speaks during his campaign event at the Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Fla., on Oct. 12, 2020. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Bill Pan
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A federal judge recently ruled in favor of a Louisiana teenager, whose parking space mural of President Donald Trump was painted over by his high school for being “too political.”

Ned Thomas, a senior at Pine Junior-Senior High School, participated in August in the school’s program that allows seniors to pay $25 to paint an assigned parking spot the way they like it, so long as the painting does not include profanity, lewd images, or other students’ names. Thomas proposed to paint a portrait of Trump wearing a stars-and-stripes bandana and sunglasses, and was approved by the school’s principal.
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