SCOTUS Strangles Protest Rights in 3 Southern States by Refusing to Hear Case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : In a previous decision, NAACP v. Claiborne, the Supreme Court found that protest organizers can't be held liable for the actions of a protester who attends their event, unless they specifically "authorized, directed, or ratified" the violent action -- which Mckesson didn't do in the case of the rock-throwing.
42% : Mckesson arose when a Baton Rouge police officer, identified only as "John Doe," sued Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson in 2016.
38% : The Supreme Court on Monday dealt a stunning blow to protest rights in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi on Monday when it declined to hear Mckesson v. Doe, leaving in place a fifth circuit appeals court's ruling that allows protest organizers to be held liable for violence caused by any single person who shows up to a mass protest.
37% : At that time, one dissenting judge pointed out that under the ruling, protest organizers could even be punished if counter-protesters or agitators went undercover to incite violence.
36% : Nevertheless, the fifth circuit appeals court sided with Doe, making it much more risky for protest organizers to hold large events because they could be held financially and legally liable if the gathering spirals out of control.

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