Trump Admin Wants To Limit Protests Near the White House and the National Mall

[RavenSky]

The government restricted DC protest rights in 1967. The @ACLU sued, and won. Judge J. Skelly Wright wrote, "Timeliness is essential to effective dissent. Delay may stifle protest as effectively as outright censorship." Which is why Trump wants to do it. As Judge Wright ruled, the White House and National Mall "constitute a unique [site] for the exercise of First Amendment rights."

https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1050461918861901826

The Trump administration wants to limit protesters’ rights to demonstrate near the White House and on the National Mall, according to the ACLU.

The National Park Service proposed 14 changes to how they handle and define First Amendment protests. One of those proposals would put limits on spontaneous demonstrations, close 80 percent of the sidewalk in front of the White House and require protest organizers to reimburse the agency for the security and support it provides.

The Park Service plans to limit demonstrators to just five feet of the 25-foot-wide White House sidewalk along Pennsylvania Avenue...

The proposed closure would violate an earlier court order that allows at least 750 people to demonstrate on the White House sidewalk because a lower limit would be “an unconstitutional infringement of plaintiff’s rights to freedom of speech and to assemble peaceably and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

https://hillreporter.com/trump-admi...ar-the-white-house-and-the-national-mall-9897

Deadline for comments? Monday, Oct 15:

https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NPS-2018-0007

Full proposed rule change:

https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=NPS-2018-0007-0001

 

[ZiprHead]

Do you think they'd appreciate the comment "FUCK THAT SHIT!"?