WSJ/NBC Poll: Strong Support for Bargaining Rights  —  Americans strongly oppose efforts to strip unionized government workers of their rights to collectively bargain, even as they want public employees to contribute more money to their retirement and health-care benefits, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows.

Justices Rule for Protesters at Military Funerals  —  WASHINGTON — The First Amendment protects hateful protests at military funerals, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in an 8-1 decision.  —  “Speech is powerful,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for the majority.

Alito's Empathy.  —  Earlier today, the Supreme Court ruled that the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church has the First Amendment right to protest military funerals.  With their boisterous antics and obscene signs, the Westboro protests offered the kind of free speech case that exemplifies the term “textbook.”