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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,996 posts)
Mon Jul 4, 2022, 08:21 PM Jul 2022

State Leaders Raise Constitutionality Concerns After Feds Call For Stop To Protesting Outside

Justices’ Maryland Homes

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Emotions are still running high more than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v. Wade.

People protesting the decision have brought their disappointment with it into the neighborhoods where some Supreme Court justices reside.

That action prompted the marshal of the court to send a letter to the governors in Maryland and Virginia asking them to enforce local and state laws that “prohibit picketing at the homes of” the justices.

But that request is getting push-back because limiting protests on public property could be a violation of a person’s First Amendment rights.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/state-leaders-raise-constitutionality-concerns-after-feds-call-for-stop-to-protesting-outside-justices-maryland-homes/ar-AAZc4ea

The GOP SCOTUS picks could care less about the Constitution.
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State Leaders Raise Constitutionality Concerns After Feds Call For Stop To Protesting Outside (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2022 OP
Thank GAWD for the 'push-back'............ MyOwnPeace Jul 2022 #1
I was taught a long time ago Mme. Defarge Jul 2022 #2
Love the push back. Hope they don't relent. SharonClark Jul 2022 #3
And who's going to ultimately settle the question? NYC Liberal Jul 2022 #4
Legislature(s). n/t Igel Jul 2022 #7
K& Big R #5 UTUSN Jul 2022 #5
Keep protesting Demovictory9 Jul 2022 #6
SCOTUS Wants To Take Away Constitutional Rights Of Protesters Protesting About Constitutional Rights LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2022 #8

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
1. Thank GAWD for the 'push-back'............
Mon Jul 4, 2022, 08:26 PM
Jul 2022

after all, these 'Let-'em-eat-cake' Judges can't forget about the actual 'rights' that we Americans have, can they?

What? Oh - THEY get to decide what rights THEY want us to have or NOT have...........

Silly me - I thought they believed in the Constitution........

Mme. Defarge

(8,033 posts)
2. I was taught a long time ago
Mon Jul 4, 2022, 08:29 PM
Jul 2022

that a key legal principle is that a law must be 1) reasonable and 2) enforceable. Prohibition, as an example, though I’m not old enough to remember it.

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