Colorado officials are urging a federal court to uphold a state law prohibiting anti-abortion protesters from approaching people inside an eight-foot “bubble” zone near clinic entrances.
Governor Jared Polis (D) and Attorney General Philip Weiser (D) asked the US District Court for the District of Colorado Thursday to issue a pretrial ruling in their favor in anti-abortion advocate Wendy Faustin’s free-speech lawsuit.
Faustin couldn’t win because the district court is bound by US Supreme Court precedent—a 2000 decision in Hill v. Colorado upholding the same state law, they said.
Hill was a controversial decision, and anti-abortion advocates and First Amendment ...
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