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- The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Capitol Police rules limiting protests on the Capitol’s eastern steps.
- Judge Neomi Rao wrote the steps are a nonpublic forum that requires neutral, viewpoint-free restrictions.
- Plaintiff Presbyterian minister Patrick Mahoney, arrested in 2021, received a partial victory.
- The panel remanded the case to the U.S. District Court without ordering the steps opened.