Supreme Court Torn Over Evangelist’s Challenge to Protest Ordinance

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared torn over a Mississippi evangelist’s challenge to a city protest ordinance he was previously convicted of violating, seeming hesitant to cast aside a conflicting past ruling but wary of restricting the path to legal relief too heavily.

Gabriel Olivier, a Christian street preacher, asked the justices to greenlight his lawsuit questioning the constitutionality of an ordinance that restricts demonstrations outside a Brandon, Miss., amphitheater, which he claims runs afoul of his religious rights.   

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