Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas assailed the high court’s decision Monday to not take up a challenge to abortion clinic buffer zones that he asserts trample First Amendment protections, calling the refusal an “abdication of our judicial duty.”
The court turned away appeals by self-described “sidewalk counselors” in New Jersey and Illinois of lower court decisions to throw out their lawsuits that had claimed the buffer zones violate free speech protections under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. The activists were asking the Supreme Court to overturn its 2000 ruling in Hill v. Colorado allowing a Colorado buffer zone law.
Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito dissented; only Thomas filed a written rebuttal.
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