WASHINGTON (AP) — Protest organizers and their attorneys say the National Park Service is quashing dissent by blocking access to public space for those who want to demonstrate during President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
The park service historically reserves space for use by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, but activists say the denial of protest permits has gone too far this time and is unconstitutional.
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund says “virtually all of the major locations for mass assembly” in Washington have been made unavailable before, during and after the inauguration. Those sites include the Ellipse and Lafayette Park on either side of the White House.
The protest groups and attorneys will discuss their concerns at a news conference Wednesday.
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So file suit immediately and seek an injunction. The right to peaceful assembly is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Fight Trumpism!! Trumpism = racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, Islamophobia, White Supremacy. We must brand this behavior TRUMPISM.
They’re right and it is their right. This shouldn’t be happening and accommodations should be made. I don’t give a fuck about any excuses about what it would cost or the potential for it to cause altercations. I’d say the same about people who wanted to protest Obama or Clinton. This is elementary shit right here and shouldn’t be a fucking question.
What a group of nitwits. Nobody cares if they protest or not. They are serving no purpose other than to stroke their own egos
The crowning of King Donald “the draft dodging coward” Trump will go off without a hitch. Then they’ll really begin to see unconstitutional actions.
That’s really a bad idea IMO. They’d love to have us call it Trumpism so that when it fails miserably they can say “But that’s Trumpism, Conservatism is still a great deal.”
We must stop them from labeling Nazism as Alt-Right! We must stop them from labeling mainstream conservative thought as Trumpism! Make them eat the Nazis in their ranks. Make them eat the corruption of their 40 year movement to crush ordinary Americans.