Kudos to Liberty Council at www.LC.org!
"We have successfully defended
Mary Susan Pine. A federal judge has ended Attorney General Eric
Holder’s two-year political prosecution of this pro-life educator.
Holder accused Pine of obstructing the entrance to an abortion clinic,
in violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (“FACE”).
In granting summary judgment, Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp concluded that
the government lacked evidence to prove not just one, but “all three
elements of its FACE claim.” Judge Ryskamp chastised Holder for seeking
to apply federal law in a clearly unconstitutional manner: “Stretching
the terms of FACE to apply to this case … would unjustifiably impinge
on Ms. Pine’s First Amendment rights.”
The Government’s decision to prosecute Pine despite having no
evidence of wrongdoing prompted Judge Ryskamp to suspect a conspiracy
at the highest level of the Obama Administration: “The Court is at a
loss as to why the Government chose to prosecute this particular case
in the first place,” he wrote. “The Court can only wonder whether this
action was the product of a concerted effort between the Government and
the PWC [Presidential Women’s Center], which began well before the
date of the incident at issue, to quell Ms. Pine’s activities rather
than to vindicate the rights of those allegedly aggrieved by Ms. Pine’s
conduct.”
This is a tremendous victory not just for Susan Pine, but for the
First Amendment and the pro-life movement. Attorney General Holder
sought to use federal law as a billy club against pro-lifers, but
received instead a clobbering from the very Constitution he had sworn
to protect.
Freedom-loving Americans everywhere should rejoice."
Via i Own the World: http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=114809
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