For nearly three years, it has seemed inevitable that the Supreme Court would strike down the “buffer zones” that restrict protests near the entrances of reproductive health clinics. A majority of the court has already castigated these laws—and past precedent upholding them—as a subversion of anti-abortion protesters’ First Amendment rights.

Justices Thomas and Alito dissented from the court’s refusal to reconsider a 25-year-old precedent upholding “buffer zones” around abortion clinics.

N.J., that ban anti-abortion activists from approaching someone entering an abortion clinic, sometimes dubbed “sidewalk counseling.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito both indicated they would’ve taken up the case, but it requires four ...

The Supreme Court has declined to hear cases from abortion opponents who say limiting demonstrations near clinics violate their First Amendment rights.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented, saying that the precedent deserved a fresh look since the court overturned Roe.

Abortion opponents wanted the Supreme Court to scrap protest restrictions around clinics. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have taken the case.

The US Supreme Court dealt a setback to abortion opponents, refusing to reconsider a 2000 decision that lets states and cities create protective zones to shield patients from being approached near clinic entrances.

At issue was a 25-year precedent that allows local governments to create protest-free buffer zones around all health-care facilities, not just abortion clinics.

The Supreme Court refused Monday to take up a First Amendment case to revisit a previous ruling enshrining abortion clinic buffer zone laws, earning a fiery dissent from Justice Thomas.

“Hill was wrong the day it was decided, and the case for overruling it has only strengthened ever since,” Paul Clement, a veteran conservative Supreme Court attorney who previously served as solicitor general, wrote in the petition challenging Carbondale’s ordinance.

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who ... but two conservative justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, disagreed.