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Lines. out west, you could say it is precisely the lack of water causing a problem in california. officials are taking drastic action now fining up to $500 a day for people found to be wasting water. violations include washing a car without a shut-off nozzle on the hose, allowing unchecked run-off from sprinklers and hosing down sidewalks or driveways, which is just wasteful. some are encouraging citizens to report on their neighbors who are wasting water. >> this is just weeds. very sad. were i...

Now. and i could hear those horns honking as theyre driving by. im not sure if your photographer is able to give us an image of those people driving by in traffic. maybe its just not ginned up enough yet because the news is just getting out. >> you can see, i mean, people are starting to gather on the sidewalks. some of them are coming up to the media. right now, its just this sense of, its that letting out the ex-halation of, you know, thank goodness. its not the instant jubilation. it isnt tha...

They love the first amendment. >> well, thats good. everyone does and the first amendment has never been so strongly protected. the bad news is all you have to do sometimes is call it the first amendment and all sorts of other things start creeping in. so free marketeers, well, we have a first amendment right to say all sorts of things about our product and you cant restrict us. they called themselves counselors rather than protesters and here is the third point, this is the sidewalk and the cou...

Roberts, he said, listen, we have to hold back on speech thats content neutral. justice scalia said, hold on, im going to write a separate opinion. where kennedy and thomas join me. this is restricting speech, that is freedom of speech. >> the fact is, this has all sorts of water cooler buzz. the question is, what is the implication for the abortion clinics? >> alex, this is the only clinic in the country thats doing it. there are alternatives. you have to talk about public safety. access to hea...

Wrote the majority opinion imagines a more civil process. he wrote petition he is wish to converse about fellow citizens about an important subject on the public streets be a sidewalks, sites that have hosted discussions about the issues of the day throughout history. that is the key to how the court ruled. the petitioners made it about their right to have free speech be and argued that the buffer zones made it impossible for that to happen. the court agreed writing the buffer zones impose serio...

That is basically a no-protest zone, a bubble like youve got around polling places, like youve got around military funerals. like the justices of the supreme court enjoy every day. that fixed zone was designed to keep those clinic entrances open and people going in and out of the clinics safe, after decades of murder and mayhem outside clinics just like that. today the supreme court overturned that massachusetts law. from inside their own protective buffer zone, the supreme court issued its majo...

Justices want for themselves? join me now, martha coakley. shes a democratic attorney general for massachusetts. what did the court get wrong? they unanimously found that your arguments were insufficient, that you are un-dually restricting free speech. what did they get wrong? >> well, it is a little ironic, chris, as you pointed out that somehow, you know, the daonning of a black robe lets them say, do as we say, not as we do. particularly this is about the rights of women who have constitution...

Joining me now, martha coakley. shes a democratic attorney general for massachusetts. what did the court get wrong? they unanimously found that your arguments were insufficient, that you are unduly restricting free speech. what did they get wrong? >> well, it is a little ironic, chris, as you pointed out that somehow, you know, the donning of a black robe lets them say, do as we say, not as we do. particularly this is about the rights of women who have constitutionally protected rights to access...

35 feet from the clinic entrance that is basically a no-protest zone, a bubble like youve got around polling places, like youve got around military funerals. like the justices of the supreme court enjoy every day. that fixed zone was designed to keep those clinic entrances open and people going in and out of the clinics safe, after decades of murder and mayhem outside clinics just like that. today the supreme court overturned that massachusetts law. from inside their own protective buffer zone, ...

The christmas holiday or the summer vacation or whatever. having what they call proforma sessions where they gavel it to order. a new seconds later, gavel into recess. and they say that shows that the recesses are only lasting, like, two or three days and the supreme court said thats going to work. that a recess has to last at least ten days for a president to be able to use the recess appointment power. so, for all practical purposes, while its not formally dead, its practically dead. >> yeah, ...