- Jurisdiction
- D.C.
I have been watching the anti-ICE immigration and migrant protests in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York and think they have been getting out of hand and disturbing to me. I ask because I am in Washington DC, where President Trump plans to have a military parade on Saturday and I have some friends who insists on coming here to protest, yell in the faces of the national guard and the police, like you see in the photos of many newspapers like the New York Times. The believe this is a first amendment right of free speech. I think that is assault and it doesn't matter that it is a police officer. It's another human being and you don't get a free 'right' to do this. They also want to wear balaclavas and scarfs to cover their faces, which I don't think there is any law against even in hot weather in June. But they do want to stop traffic by sitting in the middle of the street, which they insist is a right of free speech sit in.
So what exactly are the boundaries of the First Amendment? I think that Free Speech rights prevents them from arrest for saying something that is within the boundaries but not the rest of what they are doing. Can someone help me grasp how to define the limits in a way that isn't just subjective opinion?
So what exactly are the boundaries of the First Amendment? I think that Free Speech rights prevents them from arrest for saying something that is within the boundaries but not the rest of what they are doing. Can someone help me grasp how to define the limits in a way that isn't just subjective opinion?
