Pro-Palestine protestors in Boise have obtained a court ruling against the Idaho Department of Administration with an injunction allowing them to continue their demonstrations on the Capitol Mall.
- The firm representing the protestors, known as People’s Liberated University, argued that state actions violated their First Amendment rights.
- The judge’s decision prevents the state from removing tents or seizing property as long as the protests do not impede maintenance or access to state buildings.
- The Idaho Department of Administration declined to comment, citing ongoing litigation.
(The following is a transcription of the full broadcast story.)
Since May, protestors against the war in Gaza have been demonstrating on the grass of the Capitol Mall. Now, as we previously reported, the group known as the People’s Liberated University faces a lawsuit filed by the Idaho Department of Administration.
“We filed a counter-lawsuit alleging that the actions of the state police and Department of Administration in seizing the property of the protestors, citing them, and arresting them violated their First Amendment rights,” says Casey Parsons with Wrest Collective, the firm representing the People’s Liberated University in this case.