p private? the court s decision can be viewed as narrowly tailored. it is a step towards taking away a woman s access to full reproductive care and preventing had her from enjoying the full breadth of autonomy. erin carmon, akhil from yale university. michelle, who is a clinic escort be a defense organizer. thank you for being here. thank you for having us. i have many feelings. this a unanimous decision. i have enough respect left for the court that it makes me presume this must have been legally the right decision. well, i have some questions. here is the good news.
a second ruling by the supreme court on thursday sent a clear message that president obama s powers are limited. the court unanimously ruled that the president violated the constitution in 2012 by making recess appointments to the national labor relations board while the senate was on a brief break. in its opinion, which was written by justice stephen buyer, that the senate was in a three-day recess. three days is too short a time to bring a recess within the scope of the clause thus we concluded the president lacked the power to make the recess appointments here at issue. though the court put limits 0 on the president s recess appointment powers in the short term they left open the possibility to be made during breaks of ten days or more. so ten days is a recess. three days is not. you wrote about this back when the appointments were made and said, hey, just write a letter. it will solve it. tell me about that solution that
one woman, a clinic worker, died at the scene. but the terror wasn t over. just ten minutes later a similar attack at a clinic blocks away by a gunman also dressed in black. three people were injured at the second clinic including one woman who died at the hospital. that was the nbc n nbc night news broadcast from the night of december 30, 1994, the same day a gunman killed a total of two people and wounded five others at two separate abortion clinics in suburban boston. that shooting along with a history of harassment and violence at the clinics led to the 2007 massachusetts law that created the 35-foot buffer zone t the supreme court just ruled unconstitutional on the grounds it violated the protesters first amendment. this is part of the work that i do, michelle. absolutely. absolutely. i am wondering where is the patient s first amendment liberty not to have to hear this
they love the first amendment. well, that s good. everyone does and the first amendment has never been so strongly protected. the bad news is all you have to do sometimes is call it the first amendment and all sorts of other things start creeping in. so free marketeers, well, we have a first amendment right to say all sorts of things about our product and you can t restrict us. they called themselves counselors rather than protesters and here is the third point, this is the sidewalk and the court thinks sidewalks are spaces for public conversation. now here s what can be done to push back because there s another thing this court respects, private property. so one possibility would be to actually sell the sidewalk in a 35-foot zone to the clinics so
sidewalk counseling? i have seen this sidewalk counseling firsthand when i volunteered as an escort for women seeking abortions. and this was anything but counseling. as the women were shown pictures of dead infants, bloody crosses, and they were subjected to horrific taunts like baby murderer. chief justice roberts went so far as to say they are not protesters. the they seek to express their operation enduring freedom position and to inform women of various alternatives and to provide help in pursuing them. if all that the women can see and hear are vociferous opponents of abortion the buffer zones have effectively stifled the message. intended or not the court s ruling gives it to anti-choice advocates to counsel a pregnant woman about the choices she should or should not make with her own body. yet these counselors don t have to hold any particular license to hole these sidewalk counseling sessions. what about the rights of pregnant with women who want to keep their condition, you k