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The US Supreme Court rejected appeals by two members of a white supremacist group convicted under a federal anti-riot law for attacking counter-protesters during the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right†rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The men, Michael Paul Miselis and Benjamin Drake Daley, argued unsuccessfully that the 1968 Anti-Riot Act violates the Constitution by punishing protected speech. A federal appeals court said part of the law was unconstitutional but left the convictions intact. The Supreme Court made no comment in rejecting the appeals as part of a list of orders.
In upholding the convictions, 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals said the two men committed multiple violent acts — including punching, kicking, choking and head-butting people — at the rally and at two earlier demonstrations.
The men were part of the Rise Above Movement, a Southern California white supremacist group that billed itself as a “combat-ready, extremist group of a new nationalist white identity movement,†according to the appeals court.