Kansas’ Supreme court holds State law banning funeral picketing is unconstitutional.

The Kansas Supreme Court held (here: tinyurl.com/yq3s3q) just this last Tuesday that the state's new anti-picketing law which protects funerals from assholes showing up to heckle (PDF: www.kslegislature.org/bills/2...244.pdf) (supplement PDF: www.kslegislature.org/supplem...244.pdf) is unconstitutional, because of a separation of powers problem found impliedly in the (here: tinyurl.com/yqffp5).

The court looked to Quo Warranto to hold that the was unenforceable until after the Court ruled on whether it violated separation of powers.
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The idiots from the Westboro Baptist church (here: tinyurl.com/bikk) JURIST news archive], spurred this action because of their picketing and heckling persons attending funerals.
‘Thirty plus other states have passed similar laws in response to the group, and a Newly passed Fed law (the bill is here: tinyurl.com/28emho) which limitsd protesting at national cemeteries.