JON SARCHE, ASSOCIATED PRESS - White House officials can exclude
dissenters from taxpayer-funded appearances by President Bush without
violating the protesters' rights, according to lawyers for volunteers
who helped eject three people from a hall where Bush was to speak.
Attorneys for Michael Casper and Jay Bob Klinkerman said the government
has the same rights as a private corporation when its officials speak.
"The president may constitutionally make viewpoint-based exclusionary
determinations in conveying his own message," the attorneys said in a
filing last week. "So in following the instructions of the White House
and carrying out its viewpoint-based exclusions, Casper and Klinkerman
did not violate any of plaintiffs' constitutional rights."
Plaintiffs Leslie Weise and Alex Young were among the three told to
leave just before Bush was to talk about his plans for Social Security
at the March 21, 2005, event in Denver. Weise and Young argue they were
ejected for their political views. They had arrived in a car bearing a
"No blood for oil" bumper sticker. They were also wearing T-shirts
saying "Stop the lies" under their clothes but did not show them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_protesters
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dissenters from taxpayer-funded appearances by President Bush without
violating the protesters' rights, according to lawyers for volunteers
who helped eject three people from a hall where Bush was to speak.
Attorneys for Michael Casper and Jay Bob Klinkerman said the government
has the same rights as a private corporation when its officials speak.
"The president may constitutionally make viewpoint-based exclusionary
determinations in conveying his own message," the attorneys said in a
filing last week. "So in following the instructions of the White House
and carrying out its viewpoint-based exclusions, Casper and Klinkerman
did not violate any of plaintiffs' constitutional rights."
Plaintiffs Leslie Weise and Alex Young were among the three told to
leave just before Bush was to talk about his plans for Social Security
at the March 21, 2005, event in Denver. Weise and Young argue they were
ejected for their political views. They had arrived in a car bearing a
"No blood for oil" bumper sticker. They were also wearing T-shirts
saying "Stop the lies" under their clothes but did not show them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_protesters
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