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  Hold on, this is bullshit, and if it’s not then why are none of the details in this article, literally just a statement. Freedom of speech literally protects your right to protest, it’s the actual definition of freedom of speech not the Republican version of being allowed to lie on social media without consequences. It doesn’t protect you if you are protesting and also breaking a law, you can get arrested for any law you break while protesting but not for protesting. My suspicion is that the difference in punishment was a difference in what they were charged with, but the article doesn’t say what they were charged with conveniently. Gotta be better than the others, don’t use the same stupid tricks the right uses
context: Rights actively under attack from Republicans:
  Right to Bodily Autonomy
  Right to Protest
  Right to Free Speech >
  
  Right to vote. >
  
  Right to what you can read
  Right to what you can wear
  Right to what you can say online >
  
  But only if you’re left-leaning. Can’t have any of that! >
  
  I'm surprised there aren't lots of protestors who attend the court and start chanting "Rapist" when Brett Kavanaugh speaks. >
  
  His often repeated phrase is likely 'laws for thee, not for me'.  The court is illegitimate in the most profound of ways.  Time for a more balanced court, term limits and the ability for a justice to be removed. >
  
  Isn't it in the constitution to allow us to protest Congress? 
  We're literally about to become an authoritarian state... >
  
  You are welcome to protest Congress, but Congress can also put reasonable limits on that expression. I can talk about how our whole government needs to change; I cannot do it by running in front of traffic on the highway. I am free to say I hate Biden’s guts, that he’s a moron, and that his policies are destroying us all; I don’t get to walk into the White House to tell him. I am free to say that Justice Kavanaugh is a sexual predator and has no place on the court; we cannot have protests in courtrooms. Literally nothing would ever get done. >
  
  You can totally block roadways as part of a protest. Want to tell Biden you don't like or support his policies? Go protest outside the White House. Get a bunch of people to go with you and block up the streets and spread your message. Bring big signs that can be read from the White House. You think a court got a ruling wrong? Go protest that ruling outside the courthouse and the district attorney's office. Make it hard to do those jobs.  The whole point of protesting is to be disruptive and civilly disobedient to get those in power to at least listen to your grievances. >
  
  heaven forbid that we disrupt them while they are taking our rights away.  Ugh. >
  
  Well no one really seems to care that much so I'm surprised they're worried about it. >
  
  SCOTUS is apparently is thin-skinned and overly harsh when people disagree with their decisions that negatively affect long standing human rights and empowering corporations and others to unduly influence elections, among other issues.
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  Over on the Capitol grounds, “it is virtually unheard of” for people to be jailed overnight, a Capitol Police official said. Protesters face different outcomes depending on where the offense takes place and whether they are repeat offenders. In many instances, cases are instantly resolved through the “post and forfeit” process. Repeat offenders, a famous example being actor and activist Jane Fonda, can sometimes face a night in jail. 
  At the Supreme Court, people who are arrested are processed by the Supreme Court Police and, after processing, transferred to the detention facility housed underneath the local District of Columbia courthouse. There, they await an initial court hearing. The District of Columbia U.S. Attorney’s Office handles prosecutions. 
  Typically, protesters in the courtroom are charged, as the three women were, with violating a federal law that outlaws "loud, threatening or abusive language" in the Supreme Court building. The maximum sentence is 60 days in prison. At the Capitol, protesters face charges for violating a local District of Columbia law that prohibits obstructions and disruptions in public places. Defendants could in theory face up to 90 days in jail.
  
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  There are also inherent differences between the two institutions. Congress is where democratically elected representatives meet and a place where members of the public have a right to express their views. The high court, meanwhile, is not directly accountable to the people and likes to see itself as nonpolitical. As such, there may be a desire to crack down on protesters to help maintain that image. The respective police departments have different legal powers too, which could affect how they resolve cases.
  The legal community's reverence for the court was on display during the sentencing of the three protesters this month. Assistant U.S. Attorney Meredith Mayer-Dempsey said the women’s conduct “demonstrates egregious disrespect for the highest court in the land," adding that they had shown a lack of remorse even while pleading guilty. She said that a disruption in the courtroom was “more significant” than similar conduct outside the building.
  
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  The Supreme Court has demonstrated even greater egregious disrespect towards us and our rights. >
  
  “Freedom” >
  
  Is just another word for nothing left to loose. >
  
  It seems we still have monarchs in this society. Unelected wearing robes and willing to take away our rights with no recourse to get rid of them. >
  
  They can be impeached with a two-thirds vote in the Senate. At least a third of our leaders are okay with their actions, which is why it doesn't happen. >
  
  And if supreme court decides to take rights away, it's just another day. >
  
  It's called contempt of court it isn't new. There is nothing that says you can't protest, just can't disrupt proceeding. Justice delayed is justice denied. And that would have negative consequences. >
  
  I’d wear that like a badge of honor and put it on my CV. >
  
  Overrunning people voting on how to make life a living hell isn’t going to be dissuaded by bullshit punishments. >
  
  And they wonder why people think this Supreme Court is illegitimate >
  
  I mean, it’s a court.  Don’t compare it against congress, compare it against other courts.  Congress is a body for representing the people and for discussion.  Courts are not.  The Supreme Court is somewhat harsher than lesser courts but it’s in the same vein. Didn’t need an article for that. >
  
  Public owned spaces has literally nothing to do with this, as you yourself points out - they can be limited (free speech absolutists might disagree,  but that’s not the real world). >
  
  But that limiting can also abused by the government which I also point out.  If government is going to abuse the ability to limit protests then why should citizens obey that abuse. 
  We allow limitations as citizens and when that delegated power is abused we should be able to take it back. >
  
  We can argue about outdoor protests all day.  That’s not what we are talking about here.  We are talking about upsetting court proceedings. >
  
  I agree about disrupting proceedings, but I would argue that the citizens have delegated the right to restrict protests during proceedings for the purpose of good use of public time and funds.  If abused by government the citizens should be able to restrict its government from preventing it from peacefully protesting anywhere. >
  
  Qualifier: If you're a Democrat. >
  
  And so? >
  
  What happens if I'm protesting the Supreme Court in my home state, at an organized rally, away from any of the Justices?
  Do I still go to jail because I disagree with them? We keep hearing the phrase "dystopian society" and I don't think it's dawned on people that we really are going that direction. >
  
  No, the criminal referrals are protests that take place within the court.  That isn't allowed in any court.  SCOTUS decided that this is a criminal offense which is complete overkill.  
  Check your states laws about protests, some states have increased penalties and protect those that run protesters down with vehicles without consequences.