Not disorderly conduct, but specifically disrupting a state process. If anything this seems to be worse, as this law seems to be in part crafted to get around "peaceable assembly" in the general region of any government office -- or in this case "freedom of press" in that vicinity. And quite likely the right to petition the legislature for redress of grievances, right?
So much erasure of rights in just a couple of paragraphs.
Calling it disorderly conduct really misses the malice in this little statute.
So that should be emphasized, that West Virginia is trying to subvert constitutional rights with local laws.
Just as a point of information, Price was charge with this West Virginia statute:
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/wvcode/chapterentire.cfm?chap=61&art=6§ion=19
Not disorderly conduct, but specifically disrupting a state process. If anything this seems to be worse, as this law seems to be in part crafted to get around "peaceable assembly" in the general region of any government office -- or in this case "freedom of press" in that vicinity. And quite likely the right to petition the legislature for redress of grievances, right?
So much erasure of rights in just a couple of paragraphs.
Calling it disorderly conduct really misses the malice in this little statute.
So that should be emphasized, that West Virginia is trying to subvert constitutional rights with local laws.