Pro-life Demonstrators OK'd
The Supreme Court has ruled on racketeering laws used against abortion clinic protestors:
The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to abortion clinics in a two-decade-old legal fight over anti-abortion protests, ruling that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to ban demonstrations.
Anti-abortion groups brought the appeal after the 7th Circuit had asked a trial judge to determine whether a nationwide injunction could be supported by charges that protesters had made threats of violence absent a connection with robbery or extortion....
Writing for the majority, Justice Stephen Breyer said Congress did not intend to create “a freestanding physical violence offense” in the federal extortion law known as the Hobbs Act.
It's amazing how those for the "Constitutional right" of "choice" aren't much interested in the actual Constitutional right of free speech.
1 comment:
"It's amazing how those for the 'Constitutional right' of 'choice' aren't much interested in the actual Constitutional right of free speech."
I am continually amazed.
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