The City of Milwaukee has been sued by a coalition of protest groups who say their rights to free speech and assembly are being violated by a special event ordinance that limits their ability to get close enough to the venue of the Republican National Convention (RNC) so that they can be seen and heard by convention attendees as they air their grievances.
The complaint against Milwaukee and several top city officials was filed on June 5 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of the Coalition to March on the RNC, a coalition made up of some six dozen organizations expressing a wide variety of concerns.
