The issue focused on using courtrooms to serve political purposes, even if that political purpose was not political. In turn, political speech was criminalized. A court would never criminalize political speech.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals heard the case in late September. It will now consider its legal decisions.

In his court opinion, Justice William Rehnquist took the court to task for its legal reasoning.

"The Court's Court of Appeals decision on the First Amendment makes no legal difference to