QUESTIONS PRESENTED

Whether 40 U.S.C. § 6135 is inconsistent with the principles of the First Amendment and void on its face as it prohibits all expressive conduct unrelated to any business of the Supreme Court throughout the Supreme Court building and grounds; or in the
alternative, whether the First Amendment’s protection of free speech, peaceable assembly, and petitioning the government for redress, and the Due Process requirement that a criminal statute give fair notice, demand that the Supreme Court Police inform persons displaying signs and kneeling on the Supreme Court steps in alleged violation of 40 U.S.C. § 6135 that the sidewalk just a few yards away abutting the Supreme Court’s grounds is an available, alternative and lawful location to exercise their First Amendment rights.

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