Interrupting Julius Caesar: Using Conspiracy Law to Combat Right-Wing Conspiracy Leaders

How to fight back against right-wing conspiracy kooks? Last night, two protesters interrupted the Public Theater’s production of Julius Caesar, with one storming the stage to accuse the actors of inciting political violence. Trump supporter and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec filmed his partner-in-crime, right-wing blogger Laura Loomer, as she marched on-stage mid-performance.

“BREAKING: Julius Ceasar Gets SHUTDOWN,” Posobiec tweeted along with a video of the stunt, which showed Loomer shouting “Stop the normalization of political violence against the right!” as she marched on-stage.

Let’s compare that to Glasson v. City of Louisville (6^th Cir. 1975). Marjorie Glasson was on a sidewalk along a street where President Nixon’s motorcade was traveling in 1970. She held up a poster that read, “Lead us to hate and kill poverty, disease and ignorance, not each other.” A Louisville police officer tore up her sign, saying it was “detrimental.”

Glasson sued under Reconstruction-era civil rights laws. One law was the Ku Klux Klan Act. The city argued that since Ms. Glasson wasn’t African-American, the law couldn’t be applied to her. The federal appeals court disagreed, noting that the Ku Klux Klan Act was intended not only to protect freed slaves but also their political supporters.

Nearly 100 years after the law was passed, the court said that the law was passed to protect people who exercise their right to political dissent. The Klan Act isn’t limited to opponents of the KKK.
Section 1985(3) applies to private actors (not just state actors, as in Glasson). See Griffin v. Breckenridge (1971). 
Back to Julius Caesar. A “Section 1985(3)” [Ku Klux Klan Act] lawsuit would also need to show a conspiracy to deprive people of their civil rights.

Look at the facts: This was (pardon the pun) a staged and coordinated effort by the extreme right “news guy” Posobiec and his partner to interfere with the theater's right to voice a political view by putting on a play, and the right of patrons to watch the play without interruption. 
It’s time to fight conspiracy nuts with a conspiracy lawsuit.