The ruling class of judicial gods must be protected from free speech activities as picketing, distribution of literature, and demonstrations.
Posted on 10/15/2005 11:17:43 AM PDT by Jay777
A judge who declared all public areas of Los Angeles County courthouses "no speech zones" has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit.
According to the complaint filed Thursday, a general order issued Sept. 13 by California Superior Court Judge William MacLaughlin "prohibits such free speech activities as picketing, distribution of literature, and demonstration."
"The courts are supposed to be protecting our First Amendment rights, not suppressing them," said Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. "This judge's order is a constitutional travesty and has already forced our clients and other law-abiding citizens from engaging in classic, ordinary free speech."
The complaint says the ban "requires even an individual prospective speaker to get a permit but fails to provide any objective criteria or time restrictions governing the granting of a permit."
Alliance Defense Fund attorneys represent best-selling author and TV co-host Ray Comfort and Pastor Emeal Zwayne.
ADF says the two Christian ministers have been peacefully sharing their faith most mornings for the last two and a half years outside the Los Angeles County courthouse in Bellflower.
For 20 minutes each morning, Comfort and Zwayne talk with people waiting outside before the courthouse opens for the day.
They have never caused any disturbance for the court or for uninterested persons, ADF insists.
Because of the court's "no speech zone" order, police officers removed the two men from a walkway outside of the courthouse Sept. 30 and told them not to return.
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Ping!
Totally uninforcable.
These guys might disagree with you
police officers removed the two men from a walkway outside of the courthouse Sept. 30 and told them not to return.
The cops and the judge will be sued, and they will lose.
Can a judge be sued? I hope so. I kind of feel sorry for LE put in the middle though. They lose either way. If they know the constitution and stand their ground they could lose their job. If they don't know and remove people they can get sued.
You can sue a judge if he knowlingly violates a law, however it is a pain in the ass to do it.
As I have said for many years the black robed dictators have taken over the country and care nothing for the supreme law the Constitution, they only care for their left wing anti-American agenda.
Does anyone give odds on the prospect that this will be overturned? I would say they are slim to none.
Excellent Jay, great work.
Jake
True, the law is often anything but fair.
Does that apply to the U S Supreme Court ?
Opps I forgot, I already ahve your permission so I went ahead and used it. Probelm with getttttting ollllld. I foreget things, found myself in the bathroom this morning around 3:AM, forgot what I was there for, got back to bed and had to walk all the way back couse suddenly I remembered, tooth glue, my bottoms were rattleing when i snored, drinving my wife nuts.
They know so can we sue them?
The ruling class of judicial gods must be protected from free speech activities as picketing, distribution of literature, and demonstrations.
I thought at first there might be some jury nullification proponent issues here, but no. The men are gospel preaching. How petty of the judge.
Has anything good ever come from a "black robe"? First the Jesuits and now the Judges. (I am an American Indian)
Silly judge. No golf for you.
Seriously, he's an idiot if he thinks he can prevent people from discussing their religious beliefs outside the courthouse before the courthouse is even open.
Idiot!
A Class Action Suit against Ginsberg by 300 million Americans.
I would love that !
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