Tenth Circuit Has Been Pondering Wyoming’s 300-Foot Limit on First Amendment Activity at Polls for Over Ten Months

On May 17, 2022, the Tenth Circuit heard arguments in Frank v Lee, 21-8060. This is the case over Wyoming’s law that does not permit First Amendment activity within 300 feet of the entrance to the polls, on election day. The U.S. District Court had struck it down. The U.S. Supreme Court, in a Tennessee case, had previously upheld 100-foot zones, and Wyoming appears to be the only state with a zone that is bigger than that.

It seems odd that there is still no decision in the Wyoming case, given that the oral argument was over ten months ago.


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Tenth Circuit Has Been Pondering Wyoming’s 300-Foot Limit on First Amendment Activity at Polls for Over Ten Months — 6 Comments

  1. NOOOOO DISTANCES IN THE 1 AMDT.

    TOO DIFFICULT FOR CONLAW MORON SO-CALLED JUDGES TO UNDERSTAND.

  2. What is there to ponder? It is totally unconstitutional.

    People in Maine can gather petition signatures INSIDE polling places on election days, and it does not cause a problem.

  3. Justice delayed is justice denied. I hope someone in Wyoming deliberately courts arrest by soliciting signatures for a petition 299 feet from a polling place. That will turn the issue into a criminal matter, which might get the attention of the court.

  4. Gonna have to call the land surveyors out to measure the distance 😉

    Wow, Maine lets you do that? I cast my ballot in a school gymnasium… I wouldn’t any soliciting in the gym itself, I guess that’s my cutoff point.

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