Supreme Court Rejects Bid By Anti-Muslim Hate Group To Run Images Of Muhammad On DC Public Transit

The Hill reports:

The Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of an anti-Muslim group that sought to run ads depicting the Prophet Muhammad on public transit in Washington, D.C.

The justices, in an unsigned order issued Monday, rejected the request from the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) to hear their case over the ads, which they asked to be displayed on the D.C. Metro system. The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled AFDI as an anti-Muslim hate group.

The ad submitted by the group featured the phrase “Support Free Speech” and then an image of Muhammad, the winning picture of an art contest sponsored by the group.

The AFDI is headed by extremist Pamela Geller, who last appeared on JMG when she declared that “leftists are paying huge sums” for people to protest against Trump. Geller claims that Hillary Clinton is an “authoritarian” and secret lesbian. In 2016 she filed “freedom of speech” lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Geller has sued multiple transit agencies for refusing to run her anti-Muslim ads.