died in this country throughout our history to preserve such a precious right and to have a group of 80 people destroy it and mock it the way they are, it s a crime. it was just a nightmare. they position themselves about 30 feet from the main entrance of the church. and they held signs that said god hates you. you are in hell. semper phi fags. bill: i spoke on gma saying that the judges are wrong and cruel to boot and we will assist the snyder family as it takes its case to the supreme court. you can help, too. there is a web site set up, matthew snyder.org. all donations had help the insiders try to write this terrible wrong. it will cost them big money to take it to the supreme court. as for the westboro baptist church it does have a right to spew its hateful rhetoric. it doesn t have a right to be in your face. as i said if president obama were speaking at that funeral, you know damn well those people
bill: not for bias crimes. bias crimes are different. use of the n word itself. bill: it comes under that banner. just the use of an offensive word in and of itself to me is not enough. i believe in free speech and protecting free speech. bill: the judges that made the ruling in the snyder case, megyn was right when she said they didn t have to. they didn t need to her word was need. say you don t have to pay court costs. they didn t need to explain the intentional infliction of emotional distress and two of them didn t. i say they have a moral obligation to do it in that kind of a high profile case. i try not to mix that moral obligation. no but you are an american. as an american. bill: i want that. as an american, my sole concern and priority is that they follow the law and uphold the constitution. would it be nice, yes. bill: martin luther king brought the moral thing in. he wasn t a judge, bill. bill: yeah. you are not a judge either. exactly. so we may
would have been a quarter of a mile away. not yards away. the authorities in westminster, maryland, simply did not protect the snyder family. the case demonstrates how out of whack we are in this country when it comes to dealing with evil. we simply don t know how to confront it the forces of darkness understand exactly how to use our system to do as much damage as they can. we hope the supreme court will understand just how important the situation is to protect freedom. not limit it. and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction with us attorney and fox news anchor megyn kelly who anchors america live in the afternoon is a former supreme court correspondent. goes to the supreme court in october. what do you expect to happen there? it s going to be a close decision. i think it s good news for mr. snyder that they took it. which means, you know, they are interested in it and there is a possibility. this is going to be a close one, bill. because the law is really not c
articulate those rules. megyn may articulate those rules. as judges they don t have to do that. bill: they don t have to but they should. i m not arguing the case they should or should not. bill: why not? i m asking you. it would be nice. bill: it would be nice. it would be great. what they must do is follow the rules and the law and that s what they did. bill: okay. you are waffling here. i m not waffling. i m going to follow the law. it would be great. bill: i want judges to be human beings. that s a slippery slope, bill. bill: i know it s a slippery slope to have human beings being judges. that s the activist judges as a human being i have continue to vehicle rules that might encounter literal reading of the law. bill: discretion to do what they wanted to do. locked. no. you just talked about martin luther king. sometimes being a human being means challenging the law or changing the law even as a judge. bill: that s not their judge. that s my point it
laws saying you can t get anywhere near the actual funeral. bill: look, whether it was 30 feet or, you know, 300 feet, that does make a difference, i guess. but what s in play here are a number of things. let s take the appeals court in virginia first. all right. number one, i don t know whether you know this, but the appeals court, these three pinheaded judges put their pictures up there again. they found that the intentional infliction of emotional distress charge, that the family made in this case. and won on at the trial court. bill: was not valid. no, they didn t. if you read the thing they were not sympathetic to that charge. let me explain to you where you are wrong. it s a three-judge panel. two judges did not speak to that two judges threw it out on first amendment grounds. one judge concurred with the overall result says mr. insider loses but said i would pull it out for the following reasons and that was the only judge to say the actual merits of the claim aren t