U.S.: Free speech wins: Supreme Court favors Westboro in funeral case
- 8-1 the vote in favor of Westboro’s free speech rights source
- » Sad, not surprising, but understandable: The fact of the matter is, while we would’ve loved to see Westboro blocked from picketing funerals as a political message, the First Amendment is pretty set in stone and, as much as we dislike the ramifications of this decision, it certainly was the right one. (By the way, the lone dissenter? Samuel Alito.)