Supreme Court won't take case of pair ejected from Bush speech

[JohnWxy]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/12/AR2010101202559.html

Over the objections of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case brought by two people who said they were barred from a speech by President George W. Bush because they arrived in a car with a bumper sticker that read "No More Blood for Oil."

The court majority gave no reason for not accepting the appeal brought by Leslie Weise and Alex Young, who say a White House aide and two volunteers violated their rights by throwing them out of Bush's 2005 speech at a Denver space museum.

Secret Service officials told them that the bumper sticker was the reason for their exclusion from the speech, which was at a public event rather than a political rally.

A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit said the pair could not on free speech grounds sue the volunteers who excluded them because neither had planned to make remarks at the event or try to disrupt it.

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[n2doc]

1. Silly people, Free Speech is only for Corporations!

Thus sayeth the Roberts Corp Court

[Sal Minella]

2. Somebody wasn't notified that "free speech" is done with dollars

now, not with bumperstickers.

It is really hard to keep up, yes.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. Okay, how about freedom of assembly?

It's true the pair didn't plan to speak, but they sure expected to listen.