[CyberCowboy777]

"You are not to reference the Constitution in these proceedings. You will not address it in voir dire, you will not address it in your opening remarks, you will not ask any questions about the Constitution when you summon your witnesses, and you will not talk about the Constitution when you give your closing arguments."

You do not have a problem with this?

[sinkspur]

You do not have a problem with this?

I have nothing to corroborate what the judge said or the context in which he said it, other than this posting from a libertarian web site.

If the defense attorney (as I suspect) was going to make his case, not on whether his client violated the ordinance, but on the US Constitution, then I can see where the judge might have said what he said. This was a city court, it was a city case.

The attorney was grandstanding, and the judge was not going to allow him to turn the court room into a circus.