The United States' Supreme Court has had two cases involving the bill of rights. The main case covered in the article was a man claiming "his free speech rights had been violated when Secret Service agents arrested him after he made critical remarks about the Bush administration’s war policies." This case ruled against the prosecutor due to evidence pointing out that the secret service had just cause to believe that he could be a danger to whomever they were protecting. This is important because this precedent shows how our current supreme court values safety over security and that mindset will likely be a deciding factor in later cases should a bill whose focus is safety, but which also has questionable limitations on individual or group freedoms, is brought forth before the court.
I chose this article because I haven't heard about the Supreme Court for a while and I was curious. I honestly didn't notice how well or poorly the article was written, though I would have appreciated a better run down of the court case. I did enjoy reading about what the Supreme Court has been up to though.
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