[irish_links]

"...Justice John Paul Stevens filed the only dissent. He said the court was limiting the scope of the Hobbs Act and limiting protection of property owners...."

While I cheer the decision from both pro-life and constitutionalist points of view, I have to give props to generally knee-jerk liberal Stevens on this point. Exercising free speech rights does not grant anyone the right to disrupt legal trade and commerce. This goes for pro-life protestors on the side of the angels just as well as anti-globalist anarchists trying to prevent me from buying my Vente Traditional at Starbucks in the morning/

[RobRoy]

I agree with your post except to say that RICO prosecution is not the answer. It's just the wrong law.

You shouldn't be tried for raping a woman if all you did was cut her into little pieces.

[muawiyah]

Exercising free speech rights has to do with speech - not action. The SC may be getting it right finally.

Words are just words in our system which is unique in the world.