United States v. David Bronstein

Opinion for the Court filed by

Circuit Judge BROWN.

As we recently said, “[f]or more than sixty-five years, a federal statute has restricted the public’s conduct of expressive activity within the building and grounds of the Supreme Court.” Hodge v. Talkin, 799 F.3d 1145, 1149 (D.C. Cir. 2015). The statute at issue in Hodge — a fraternal twin of the one at issue here, see, e.g., S. Rep. No. 81-719, at 1828 (1949) — was challenged under the Constitution’s void-for-vagueness doctrine. We rejected that claim. See 799 F.3d at 1171-73. Now, we consider whether portions of its statutory sibling are…