Judge Sued For Supressing Free Speech

Posted on October 15, 2005

A judge who declared all public areas of Los Angeles County courthouses “no speech zones” has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit.

According to the complaint filed Thursday, a general order issued Sept. 13 by California Superior Court Judge William MacLaughlin “prohibits such free speech activities as picketing, distribution of literature, and demonstration.”

“The courts are supposed to be protecting our First Amendment rights, not suppressing them,” said Mike Johnson, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund. “This judge’s order is a constitutional travesty and has already forced our clients and other law-abiding citizens from engaging in classic, ordinary free speech.”

Where’s the ACLU? You can bet if this would have happened to a satanist, witch or Muslim they would be right in the mix of it. This kind of judicial tyranny is a prime example of legislating from the bench. A judge has created a law here, and declared it the law of the land, and it is bluntly unconstitutional supressing our first amendment.

ADF says the two Christian ministers have been peacefully sharing their faith most mornings for the last two and a half years outside the Los Angeles County courthouse in Bellflower.

For 20 minutes each morning, Comfort and Zwayne talk with people waiting outside before the courthouse opens for the day.

They have never caused any disturbance for the court or for uninterested persons, ADF insists.

Because of the court’s “no speech zone” order, police officers removed the two men from a walkway outside of the courthouse Sept. 30 and told them not to return.

“Our clients have been peaceably speaking on the courthouse steps for years,” said Johnson. “Now a judge has proclaimed a sudden and sweeping crackdown on free speech. A courthouse is the last place you’d expect to find a restriction on an American’s First Amendment rights.”

Absolutely amazing the gall this judge has! Thankfully the ADF are stepping up to the plate once again. This kind of judicial tyranny has got to be stopped.

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One Response to “Judge Sued For Supressing Free Speech”

Zuma on May 29th, 2007 12:53 pm

Judges will not permit other judges to be sued. You will lose the case and there will be no written opinion, just a dismissal.

I proved in federal court that judges has impaired a contract and thereby denied my right to enforce its terms.

The case was dismissed - then appealed and then certiorari to supreme court. I lost all three and there was never one opinion written so to this day I dont know why!

Courts are just corrupt and thats the way this phony so called Nation of Laws works.