The latest news on this front comes from a really interesting article at American Civil Liberties Union written by ACLU Staff Attorney Vera Eidelman and Brennan Fellow Shreya Tewari. Take a look at this excerpt:

As we argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed earlier this week, the government’s argument ignores the history of protest in our country, and it misunderstands our First Amendment rights. Our right to protest in the street is essential, and it shouldn’t depend on the location or other characteristics of the specific road we choose.

This isn’t the first time that the government has tried to argue that streets do not belong to the people. Over the summer, police officers repeatedly arrested and silenced people protesting police brutality in Missouri for supposedly obstructing public roadways, though they posed no threat or safety risk. The same thing happened in Nebraska. And a few years ago, in Arizona, the federal government used the same argument to try to stop individuals from photographing and documenting abuses by U.S. Border Patrol on public roads at internal checkpoints.

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