{"id":22460,"date":"2011-03-02T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22460"},"modified":"2011-03-02T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:19:08","slug":"ussc-rules-for-westboro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22460","title":{"rendered":"USSC rules for Westboro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_SUPREME_COURT_FUNERAL_PROTESTS?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 in favor of the Westboro &#8220;Baptist&#8221; Church.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The decision upheld an appeals court ruling that threw out a $5 million judgment to the father of a dead Marine who sued church members after they picketed his son&#8217;s funeral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alito was the lone dissenter according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>I guess everything is protected speech now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> Brandy sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41868004\/ns\/politics-more_politics\/\">MSNBC<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the protests were painful, the majority wrote that the Constitution protects even hurtful speech on public issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Westboro said, in the whole context of how and where it chose to say it, is entitled to &#8216;special protection&#8217; under the First Amendment,&#8221; Roberts wrote, &#8220;and that protection cannot be overcome by a jury finding that the picketing was outrageous.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 in favor of the Westboro &hellip; <a title=\"USSC rules for Westboro\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22460\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USSC rules for Westboro<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-general-whackos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}