Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

Welcome to case and point, the legal show for regular people.

I'm your host, Sarah Partial Perry, a senior legal fellow here at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

I am also supremely cool, not just senior in terms of my legal experience,

but also senior in terms of my ability to talk to people like you who may or may not be

interested in the law, but give you an opportunity to find out finally why it matters to you

and what's going on in the court system. We're currently

waiting right now for the swearing in of the new House and the new Senate on January 3rd,

but today it's October, November 22nd, a week before Thanksgiving. So happy early Thanksgiving

to all of you who are listening and watching. We're going to be talking today

about a law called the Face Act, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. Signed into law

by President Bill Clinton in 1994, it was ostensibly designed to prevent harassment or violence

outside abortion clinics. This happened post-Row versus Wade

back in the 70s, and momentum was building for a piece of federal legislation that would allow

abortions and individuals accessing abortion services to essentially operate more smoothly.

But the problem is it restricted speech because the

individuals who wanted to essentially run sit-ins or sidewalk counseling outside abortion clinics

were being targeted and they were being ultimately determined to be threats for the individuals

who were trying to secure abortion services

or somehow harassing or intimidating those individuals who were making their way into clinic

entrances. So my questions today are going to be directed toward Andy Bath, who was the

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