The Supreme Court issued a new ruling on Thursday banning protest demonstrations. The new regulation, which was approved by the chief justice and is now in effect, states:
No person shall engage in a demonstration within the Supreme Court building and grounds. The term ‘demonstration’ includes demonstrations, picketing, speechmaking, marching, holding vigils or religious services and all other like forms of conduct that involve the communication or expression of views or grievances, engaged in by one or more persons, the conduct of which is reasonably likely to draw a crowd or onlookers. The term does not include casual use by visitors or tourists that is not reasonably likely to attract a crowd or onlookers.
On Tuesday, a DC circuit court struck down the high court’s previous ban on demonstrations on the grounds that it was ‘overbroad’ and ‘unreasonably restrictive’ on First Amendment rights.