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Saturday, October 09, 2010
Courts - Protest during military funerals oral argument
The SCOTUS recently announced that this term it would make audio tapes of oral arguments available at the end of each week, rather than waiting until the end of the term. Taking advantage of that after the first week of this term, C-SPAN has taken the most publicized oral argument of the week, Snyder v. Phelps, and put the audio online along with synchronized video showing photos of each speaker. Access it here. Here is the description:
One of the first cases of the new Supreme Court term questions the constitutionality of holding protests during military funerals. The case, Snyder vs. Phelps, involves members of the Westboro Baptist Church who held a protest to express the belief that the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq are punishment for the country’s tolerance of homosexuality and abortion. Justice Ginsburg said that this is a case of exploiting a family’s grief and doubted that the church members’ actions are protected by the First Amendment.Combine this with SCOTUSblog's Snyder v. Phelps case page and you have the opinion below, all the briefs, and the SCOTUSblog coverage. Plus this link will give you all of the SCOTUSblog's "round-up" pages which link to newspaper coverage and other commentary mentioning the case.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 9, 2010 07:54 PM
Posted to Courts in general