Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“ I cannot see how reasonable public officials, or any staff or volunteers under their direction, could have viewed the bumper sticker as a permissible reason for depriving Weise and Young of access to the event. Nevertheless, the Court of Appeals held respondents entitled to qualified immunity because "no specific authority instructs this court...how to treat the ejection of a silent attendee from an official speech based on the attendee's protected expression outside the speech area." ”

“ No "specific authority" should have been needed; " [f] or at least a [half] -century, this Court has made clear that... [the government] may not deny a benefit to a person on a basis that infringes his constitutionally protected interests." ”