March 1, 2006
WE'VE COME A LONG WAY IN THOSE TWENTY YEARS:
Court rules pro-lifers not racketeers (Joyce Howard Price and Julia Duin, 3/01/06, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used against protesters at abortion clinics, ending a legal battle that has gone on for 20 years.Posted by Orrin Judd at March 1, 2006 7:41 AM
The high court's 8-0 decision effectively bars efforts by pro-choice groups to bankrupt the pro-life movement by using federal anti-mob laws against protest groups, claiming that such organizations were violent criminal conspiracies.
8-0! Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer (who wrote the opinion) joining in the smackdown.
Expect the new NARAL emergency fundraising campaign to kick off any second now.
Posted by: Mike Morley at March 1, 2006 9:02 AMFor awhile there, this was being used to send a message to Brandi Swindell. To not get too into her pro-life stand, if she knew what was good for her.
Good to see that this sort of thuggery has finally run its course.
Posted by: Brad S at March 1, 2006 9:58 AMThus faileth the attempt to brand an entire movement by the actions of less than a handful of *former* members: The pro-life movement has been fully aware for YEARS before the blogosphere of MSM bias (among other outrages, they suppressed or minimized condemnation by pro-life leaders of abortion clinic bombings), and I, as a pro-lifer, will wonder when the libertarian branch stops drawing from the left side of the well while objecting to drawing from the right side, when the entire well is poisoned.
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