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To: dware
The justices were unanimous Thursday that extending a buffer zone 35 feet from clinic entrances violates the First Amendment rights of protesters.

Even the Court's left wing couldn't deny the obvious.

9 posted on 06/26/2014 7:57:12 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
The Court's Opinion is here. The majority (Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan) wrote a very narrow opinion-- a law saying that no one but clinic staffers and patients can be within 35 feet of the clinic is too broad, because a narrower law could protect the clinics from disruption by protestors. The other four Justices (Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, Alito) concurred in striking down the law, but would have decided it on much broader grounds-- they say any law that protects only abortion clinics but not other kinds of buildings is always unconstitutional.
24 posted on 06/26/2014 8:28:48 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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