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Laws that protect prospective voters that fulfill their right to vote. you can protest on election day, but you can only get so close when you do it. you have to abide by a buffer zone, so you don't interfere with people as they go about casting their votes. the size of the buffer zone varies from state to state. you have to stay 150 feet away from the entrance of a polling place when voting is underway. but there are also buffer zone laws at military funerals. if you're someone who believes the best use of your time is to protest at the funerals of american servicemembers, there are people wh...

Voters that fulfill their right to vote. you can protest on election day, but you can only get so close when you do it. you have to abide by a buffer zone, so you don't interfere with people as they go about casting their votes. the size of the buffer zone varies from state to state. you have to stay 150 feet away from the entrance of a polling place when voting is underway. but there are also buffer zone laws at military funerals. if you're someone who believes the best use of your time is to protest at the funerals of american service members, there are people who believe that, god bless the...

From the entrance of a polling place when voting is underway. but there are also buffer zone laws at military funerals. if you're someone who believes the best use of your time is to protest at the funerals of american service members, there are people who believe that, god bless their souls. the u.s. constitution and right to free speech means you have a right to protest at funerals, but again, buffer zone. federal law says you can get no closer than 300 feet to the entrance of that military funeral that you are protesting. that's how the law and the courts balance that particular right to fr...

Unconstitutional. but it was a relatively narrow ruling. so tell us, what are the implications of what one? >> it striked down the massive buffer zone laws. the 35-foot no protest zones around clinic entrances in that state. what the court said, that's too much of a limitation on first amendment expression on the public sidewalk, which the court said is the sort of ground zero for political free expression in america. the ability to walk up to somebody on the sidewalk and say whatever you want. hand them to a leaflet, tell them what you think. so it certainly stops that law in that state. and ...