US constitution and the latest Turkish-US crisis

In front of me I have a Washington Post article from March 26, 1988, titled "Ruling arouses security worry at embassies."

The first paragraph says: "The State Department and the U.S. Secret Service expressed concern yesterday that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week upholding demonstrators' rights to protest near foreign embassies, may make it more difficult to provide security for foreign facilities here."

This article debates the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on demonstrations organized in front of embassies in the capital.

US Supreme Court decision

With the decision it took in 1988, the Supreme Court annulled a law in force since 1938 that banned demonstrations in front of embassies in Washington D.C., ruling that it runs against freedom of expression recognized by the U.S. constitution.

This law was used to put in force a restriction that forbade demonstrators coming closer than 500 feet (150 meters) toward embassy buildings.

An article of this law used to ban the use of symbols at these demonstrations that could possibly harm the reputation of foreign governments.

Civil rights organizations in the U.S. took this issue with a campaign that lasted for years as far as to the Supreme Court, arguing that the restrictions brought to the right of demonstration in front of embassies obstructed the freedom of expression recognized by the constitution.

The decision of the Supreme Court ruling that the "prevention of peaceful demonstrations would be a violation of freedom of expression" was seen as a great victory by a wide range of segments of the society, from civil rights defenders to Soviet Jews, who used to get arrested frequently for demonstrations they held...