ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the picketing of soldiers' funerals by a controversial religious group is constitutionally protected speech. It also examines the United States Supreme Court could review the decision of a state supreme court because the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution makes federal power superior to state power in the federal system. The book interprets the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to require recusal of a state judge when the judge has an interest in the outcome of a case that poses such a risk of bias as to deny due process to the disfavored party. It concludes that a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial occurs when a judge fails to protect a defendant from adverse publicity before or during trial.
