yet some are arguing this is a violation of free speech for protesters. i think what ties together a lot of these cases is you have conservative legal groups that are strategizing to use the court and to specifically use the first amendment as a weapon against laws that protect workers, against laws that protect access to clinics. what all of these cases have in common is they re very much part of this conservative legal rev lux. in the case of this particular buffer zone law, in 2000 the supreme court ruled you can have safe protective zones around clinics because of the ways clinics are targeted for violence, you can have a time place and manner restriction that says you cannot come up to women, cannot intimidate women, cannot block their access to clinics. so the fact that the court took this case at all is very worrying for supporters of buffer zones because they could have just said as the first circuit did that there is