Does the President Have a Right to Screen Dissenters from His Audiences?
by The Federalist Society
Posted September 02, 2010, 2:53 PM
David G. Savage reports that the Supreme Court will be considering this fall whether to take a case involving the President's power to remove dissenters from his audience at public speeches. The case comes from the 10th Circuit, where the Court of Appeals ruled that President Bush's staff was not restricted by the First Amendment from removing attendees at a 2005 town hall meeting in Denver where the President was set to speak because one of the attendees had placed a bumper sticker on her car that read "No More Blood for Oil." The Justices are due to vote on whether to hear the case in late September.