The Watson Chapel School District decided to spit on the U.S. Constitution by punishing students for wearing armbands to protest school policy.

The ACLU sued and won. The district hasn’t given up fighting yet. But thanks to an 8th Circuit order today, the school district has now run up more than $60,000 in legal bills it must reimburse plaintiffs (who knows how much it’s spent on the school district’s lawyers) trying to defend the indefensible.

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