SCOTUS Asked to Review Illinois City’s Abortion Anti-Protest Law

A dispute over a Carbondale, Ill., law that limits protests near abortion clinics presents the US Supreme Court with a perfect vehicle to overturn a 2000 top court decision that’s “patently incompatible” with the First Amendment, an anti-abortion group says.

Carbondale’s disorderly conduct ordinance—upheld by the lower courts in light of Hill v. Colorado—is a carbon copy of the “bubble,” or “buffer,” zone law approved by the high court in that 24-year-old ruling, Coalition Life told the justices on Tuesday. Hill was wrongly decided and has been “all but interred” by subsequent First Amendment decisions, it said in ...