Vox - The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act. It is possible that this outcome will be temporary. The Court did not embrace the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision attacking the First Amendment right to protest, but it did not reverse it either. That means that, at least for now, the Fifth Circuit’s decision is the law in much of the American South.
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And just what is considered a "mass" protest? Six people? Five adults and one child under 18?
It could be considered a "mass" protest for the people to send a court case up to the Supreme Court!
Not that I'm protesting or anything... Geesch... this is getting a little 'out-of-hand' don't you think. People are gonna be afraid to anything, anywhere, anytime, anyplace because somebody, somewhere totally without 'standing' will take offence just for the heck of it, and be legally able to do it.
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