The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a free speech challenge to a federal anti-riot law brought by two members of a militant white supremacist group who pleaded guilty to crimes related to a deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The justices declined to hear appeals by the two California men, Michael Miselis and Benjamin Daley, of a lower court ruling that upheld their convictions under the 1968 Anti-Riot Act but also deemed some parts of the law a violation of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech.
Miselis and Daley were members of the Southern California-based Rise Above Movement, a white supremacist group that billed itself as "combat-ready" and whose purpose was to engage in violent attacks on counter-protesters at various political rallies. Daley was a founder of the group, whose members spent weekends training in martial arts and other combat techniques.
The night before rally, Miselis and Daley joined hundreds of white nationalists in a march chanting slogans such as "Blood and soil!" and "Jews will not replace us!" Daley and others attacked counter-protesters with their tiki torches, according to court filings. After the riot, then-President Donald Trump said that there had been "very fine people on both sides" in Charlottesville.
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