Labels for Lawfare: Mostly Peaceful Protest vs Riot

[Rev.Cambeul]

If Your Protest is Labelled a Riot: All participants can be arrested

If it's a 'Mostly Peaceful' Protest: You can March, Loot & Kill in the name of Freedom of Speech


 * Unite the Right lawsuit trial will remain in Charlottesville after judge rejects request to move it

  https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/crime-and-courts/unite-the-right-lawsuit-trial-will-remain-in-charlottesville-after-judge-rejects-request-to-move/article_e5a73d97-af88-579e-b748-120796cf9d73.html

 * Convictions of 2 white supremacist group members upheld, SCOTUS says

  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/scotus-declines-to-hear-to-case-of-charlottesville-white-supremacists-who-were-convicted-under-federal-anti-riot-law/ar-AAL1Qsq

 * SCOTUS Declines to Hear to Case of Charlottesville Whites Convicted Under Federal Anti-Riot Law

  https://www.fox29.com/news/convictions-of-2-white-supremacist-group-members-upheld-scotus-says

 * U.S. Supreme Court rejects white supremacists' challenge to anti-riot law

  https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-rejects-white-supremacists-challenge-anti-riot-law-2021-06-14

June 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a free speech challenge to a federal anti-riot law brought by two members of a militant white supremacist group who pleaded guilty to crimes related to a deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The justices declined to hear appeals by the two California men, Michael Miselis and Benjamin Daley, of a lower court ruling that upheld their convictions under the 1968 Anti-Riot Act but also deemed some parts of the law a violation of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech.

The law, enacted against a backdrop of the 1960s U.S. civil rights demonstrations and anti-war protests, makes it a crime to travel "in interstate or foreign commerce" with the intention to incite, encourage, organize, promote or participate in a riot.

The statute was rarely invoked in the decades after its passage, but is now being wielded in many of the hundreds of cases stemming from the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6. [Link - politico.com]