SCOTUS rules: Pastor’s lawsuit challenging local censorship law to move forward
A pastor’s lawsuit over a local anti-protest law that censored his speech is being allowed to move forward, according to a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.
It is Gabriel Olivier who sued over the law in Brandon, Mississippi, seeking a determination that he could not be prosecuted again under the statute.
He previously was convicted, and while the Supreme Court has a precedent that bars a person previously convicted under a law from challenging it so that the result would affect his previous case...