Sanders Lawyer Tries To Shut Down “Bernie Is My Comrade” T-Shirts

Invoking the Lanham Act and U.S. copyright law, a lawyer for the Sanders campaign has demanded that the purveyor of a line of t-shirts and coffee mugs take them off the market. The allegedly offending campaign paraphernalia features the phrase “Bernie is my comrade” rendered in the campaign’s typography before a background lineup of iconic Communist leaders, including Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. Coming to the defense of the defendant with a rejoinder that might be read as a lawyerly version of “get a life” is an attorney from the left-leaning Washington group Public Citizen.