Arizona passes emergency law prohibiting funeral protests
[JURIST] Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed [press release, PDF] emergency legislation [SB1101 materials; text] Tuesday making it a crime to picket or protest a funeral. The move comes after Reverend Fred Phelps’s Westboro Baptist Church [WARNING: readers may find material at this church website offensive; JURIST news archive] announced plans to picket the funeral of Christina Green, a 9-year-old girl killed Saturday in the shooting that injured Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and killed federal judge John Roll. The law makes…