"The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared to line up, more or less, against a man arguing that Secret Service agents violated his First Amendment rights when they arrested him after he touched Vice President Dick Cheney's shoulder during a 2006 visit to a Colorado mall.
Steven Howards was taking his son to a piano lesson at the mall when he saw Cheney. One of Cheney's Secret Service agents overheard Howards, who was talking on his cellphone, say that he was going to ask the vice president "how many kids he's killed today." Soon thereafter, Howards approached Cheney, told him that his "policies in Iraq are disgusting," touched Cheney on the shoulder and then walked away.
Agent Gus Reichle, Cheney's protective intelligence coordinator, followed Howards, who angered Reichle by refusing to answer his questions. After a spirited exchange, in which Howards falsely denied touching Cheney, Reichle arrested Howards for assault and took him to the local sheriff's office, where his wife posted a $500 bond for his release.
After the state dropped the charges, Howards sued Reichle and another agent for allegedly arresting him in retaliation for his anti-war comments, violating his First Amendment right to free speech.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/dick-cheney-supreme-court_n_1370670.html?ref=politics
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