Judge bars interference with street preachers at Christmas display in Duluth | Bellingham Herald

Bellingham Herald: Chief U.S. District Judge Michael Davis issued a sweeping order Tuesday barring the city from “interfering with or prohibiting” two street preachers . . . The preachers’ attorney, Jonathan Scruggs, of Memphis, Tenn., had argued that the public retains its rights to free speech and freedom of religion while attending a public event on public property. But he acknowledged that the city and the Bentleyville group could alter the contract to try to get around Davis’ ruling. “We would then evaluate that,” said Scruggs, who works with the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, which advocates for religious freedom. “We take them as they come.”