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"  In a new term starting this week, the Supreme Court will hear cases including McCullen vs. Coakley, which will see them ruling on a Massachusetts state law which forces abortion protestors to remain a minimum of 35 feet away from any given clinic they happen to be picketing. (Coakley, in this case, is the state&amp;#039;s Attorney General Martha Coakley, who first approved the law back in 2007.) Protestors claim the law infringes their First Amendment rights (specifically by limiting their ability to &amp;quot;peacefully assemble&amp;quot;\u2026 and then less-peacefully heckle women visiting the clinic). A circuit court in Massachusetts upheld the law, and the Supreme Court themselves upheld a similar decision back in 2000 (specific in that instance to Colorado&amp;#039;s state laws). But changes in the Court&amp;#039;s lineup since then \u2014 changes that have resolutely skewed it more towards a conservative majority \u2014 mean the First Amendment/freedom of speech argument put forward by the anti-abortion plaintiffs could prove more compelling. Photo Credit: Getty Images  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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