Washington Preserving a cherished right isn't always pretty. In a victory for First Amendment fundamentalists, the Supreme Court on March 2 upheld a fringe group's right to picket the funeral of a fallen Marine, ruling 8-1 that the Westboro Baptist Church was permitted to hoist signs with hateful slogans like "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" near Matthew Snyder's funeral in 2006. The case, Snyder v. Phelps, was among the most charged on the Supreme Court docket last year, as Snyder's father sought to recover $5 million in damages awarded by a lower court but overturned on appeal.
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