SCOTUS Bails on Obligation to Protect Both Life and Free Speech
Clarence Thomas Slams Supreme Court’s ‘Refusal’ To Take Pro-Life Activists’ Free Speech Case
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear two cases involving pro-life groups who challenged laws banning protests near abortion clinics on Monday, prompting criticism from one of the court’s most conservative justices.
The court dismissed a challenge from the pro-life group Coalition Life against a law in Carbondale, Illinois prohibiting advocacy against abortion within 100 feet of abortion clinics without their permission. Justice Clarence Thomas criticized the law, which rested on Hill v. Colorado, a 2000 decision that upheld a similar law based on a “right to avoid unwelcome speech” in certain circumstances.
“I would have taken this opportunity to explicitly overrule Hill,” Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee, wrote in a dissent Monday. “For now, we leave lower courts to sort out what, if anything, is left of Hill’s reasoning, all while constitutional rights hang in the balance.”
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito joined Thomas in dissenting, while their conservative and liberal colleagues did not explain their reasoning, as is common when…
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