Bracey Harris is a national reporter for NBC News, based in Jackson, Mississippi.
The Supreme Court may soon consider two cases that could dismantle limits on how close protesters can be to people at abortion clinics and other health care facilities. The cases argue that 'buffer zones' around clinics and 'bubble zones' around the people who visit them violate the First Amendment. “Americans either have the right to speech or they don’t.
” Carbondale's city council later repealed the ordinance in July 2024. In court documents, the city said that no one had been charged and existing laws offered sufficient protection. But Coalition Life is pressing ahead with its lawsuit to prevent the bubble zone from returning, asking the Supreme Court to topple the precedent established in Hill v. Colorado. In that 2000 decision, justices ruled that a Colorado law with similar guidelines to Carbondale’s was constitutional.
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