First Amendment Protections? Not Inside U.S. Senate Building!

A 60 year-old environmental activist who hung two banners in a government building will be sentenced Tuesday -- and faces up to three years in prison.


Bloomfield, NJ resident Ted Glick will be sentenced Tuesday for unfurling two banners saying “Green Jobs Now” and “Get to Work” from the Hart Senate Office Building’s 7th floor into the atrium on Sept. 8, 2009, the day the Senate returned from its summer recess. Glick and approximately 30 demonstrators were attempting to pressure the Senate to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which passed the House in June 2009.


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First Amendment Protections? Not Inside U.S. Senate Building!