Los Angeles Times
The president and his aides are entirely free to screen the audience for his public speeches and to remove those who may disagree with him, under a ruling the Supreme Court let stand Tuesday.
By a 7-2 vote, the justices turned down an appeal from a Colorado woman who was ejected from a speech by aides to then-President George W. Bush because her car had a bumper sticker that said "No More Blood for Oil."
Meanwhile, the court agreed to hear an appeal from a jealous wife who was convicted under a federal anti-terrorism law after she tried to poison her husband's mistress. Carol Bond, a lab technician from Pennsylvania, tried 24 times to poison the woman who was pregnant with her husband's child, leaving deadly chemicals on her mailbox and the door handles of her home and car.The woman was not seriously injured, but Bond was sentenced to six years in prison. In Bond vs. U.S., she argues that she was charged under the wrong law.
The justices also said they would decide whether the Constitution restricted the questioning of children at school when allegations of sexual abuse arise. Last year, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a social worker and a police officer needed a search warrant before they took a child out of class for questioning.
Lawyers from 27 states urged the high court to overturn the ruling as wrong-headed and impractical. The case of Camreta vs. Greene will be heard early next year.
Only Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor voted to hear the case of the Colorado woman, saying the Constitution does not permit public officials to punish people simply "for holding discordant views."
"Official reprisal for protected speech offends the Constitution," Ginsburg said in her two-page dissent, "because it threatens to inhibit exercise of the protected right."
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