WASHINGTON, August 20, 2002 (LSN.ca) – The U.S. Supreme Court will review several free speech cases in the coming year that will be of interest to pro-lifers. Justices have already agreed to hear a challenge to a 50-year-old Virginia law outlawing cross burning this fall, and a federal racketeering law used against pro-lifers who protest outside abortion clinics. During the past three years, the court heard 18 free speech cases, and in half of them ruled in favour of challengers who claimed their rights were violated. For example, this year the court overturned parts of a 1996 child pornography law, ruling the government went too far in trying to ban computer simulations and depictions of teenagers and children having sex. The justices have also in the past sided with Hustler Magazine, Playboy TV and a white supremacist group. They struck down a law that punished U.S. flag burners and threw out an ordinance banning “hate speech” such as a swastika display—hardly the actions of a “conservative” court. To visit and search the Supreme Court website see: https://www.supremecourtus.gov/
To read the Las Vegas Sun story see: https://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-scotus/2002/aug/19/081908850.html