QUESTIONS PRESENTED

Whether §40 U.S.C. 6135 is inconsistent with theprinciples of the First Amendment and void on its faceas it prohibits all expressive conduct unrelated to anybusiness of the Supreme Court throughout theSupreme Court building and grounds; or in thealternative, whether the First Amendment’s protectionof free speech, peaceable assembly, and petitioning thegovernment for redress, and the Due Processrequirement that a criminal statute give fair notice,demand that the Supreme Court Police inform personsunfurling a banner on the Supreme Court plaza inalleged violation of § 40 U.S.C. 6135 that the sidewalkjust a few yards away abutting the Supreme Court’sgrounds is an available, alternative means and lawfullocation to exercise their First Amendment rights.

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