WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether to reinstate a man's conviction for protesting outside a military base in California.
Federal officials on Monday asked justices to reinstate John Dennis Apel's trespass convictions.
Apel had been banned from Vandenberg Air Force Base for previous protesting activities, so he set up in a designated protest area on a highway that passes through the base. The military owns the highway but grants the state and Santa Barbara County an easement so the public can use it.