Government,
Constitutional Law
May 23, 2023
Dangerous new laws criminalize the right to protest
Since January 2017, 45 states have considered 267 bills that restrict the right to protest.
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
America was literally created as an act of protest. And the history of America is a tribute to the power of protest seeking to advance the cause of justice and equality. "One of the great glories of democracy," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, "is the right to protest for right," enshrined in the First Amendment.
While that history is full of successes and failures, massive protests have been part of all our great advancements: ending sl...
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