On the first Wednesday of every month, John Dennis Apel is usually demonstrating against nuclear weapons at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. But this Wednesday he will be at the U.S. Supreme Court, watching the justices debate whether he can be barred from protesting there forever.

“If it was up to common sense and logic, it would be a slam dunk in my favor,” says Apel, who has been demonstrating on a public protest area outside the base regularly for 17 years. “I couldn’t harm the base if I wanted to.”

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