First Amendment Protects Right to Use Nudity as Protest (There, a Pro-Trans Protest) in Public

First Amendment Protects Right to Use Nudity as Protest (There, a Pro-Trans Protest) in Public

[1.] Some states and municipalities public nudity generally, but some, like Washington, ban only nudity that is "lascivious," which is to say involving some sexual motivation (to oversimplify somewhat). Does the First Amendment permit such bans when applied to expressive nudity? You can read the badly fractured decision of the Court in Barnes v. Glen Threatre, Inc. (1991) for yourselves and figure out what it means as a precedent. Five Justices …