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In a very unexpected ruling, when US District Court for DC, Judge Rosemary
Collyer, ruled that Washington Area Transit Authority must display
advertisements paid for by the American Freedom Initiative by 5 pm Monday 8
Oct0ber 2012.
The ruling was unexpected, not because of law, but because of Judge Collyer
’s court room antics the previous day.
Pam Geller, one of the plaintiffs, said that Collyer seemed to discard,
denigrate, downplay and dismiss the most basic law of the land: the freedom
of speech.
The Judge appeared to support Philip Staub, the lawyer for WMATA, who
invoked the international Muslim riots supposedly over the Muhammad video.
And even made assumptions about what Straub was attempting to argue.
In the end Judge Collyer ruled correctly and even quoted the relevant law to
support her conclusion. But what should alarm Americans is that she did not
do this directly from the bench.
If you read the entire article, you will see that Judge Collyer understood
that the ad was political speech, that the response by Muslims to become
violent is a decision they make, that speech which is controversial is the
reason for the First Amendment. Yet, she appeared to be hunting like a bird
dog to find a way to ban the advertisement.
No American judge should be ashamed of free speech. And no judge should need
time to make a ruling on such a clear cut case. |
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