PRESS RELEASE: Protecting the Right to Protest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 8, 2016 CONTACT: Dave Roland PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO PROTEST: Candidate Challenges Laws That Keep Political Protesters Off Election Ballots Mexico, Missouri—In 1999 the U.S. Supreme Court held that refusing to register to vote is an expressive act protected by the First Amendment because “there are those individuals for whom the choice not to register to vote implicates political thought and expression.” Rachel Johns is one of those individuals. “In 2014, as an African American…