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Protesters target Supreme Court Justices’ houses after Roe v. Wade leaked draft opinion [Video]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Abortion-rights activists surrounded Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house on Saturday night to protest.
- Later, the protesters went to Chief Justice John Roberts’ house.
- The activists protest the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Abortion-rights activists gathered outside the homes of two Supreme Court justices on Saturday night protesting against the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade. The group of 100 protesters plans to march again later this week.
Protesters chanted “My body, my choice” outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in Maryland. The group then marched to the home of Chief Justice John Roberts nearby. The group was eventually ordered to disperse by the police when they returned to Kavanaugh’s home.
“The time for civility is over, man,” protest organizer Lacie Wooten-Holway told Bloomberg. “Being polite doesn’t get you anywhere.”
The protests come following a leaked draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito showing the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. The draft opinion was published by Politico. The Supreme Court is expected to release its final decision in late June.
Gatherings outside conservative justices’ homes are being organized to take place this week. The organization Shutdown DC held a vigil outside Alito’s house on Monday night.
Another group, Ruth Sent Us is organizing protests outside the homes of the six conservative justices in Virginia and in Maryland. The group’s name is a tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
On its website, Ruth Sent Us organization invites activists by writing, “If you’d like to join or lead a peaceful protest, let us know.”
According to some Republicans, both the leak and the protests against the expected ruling are an “intimidation” of judges and illegal.
Supreme Court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe told Bloomberg that “The court as a matter of policy does not discuss security arrangements.”
Source: HuffPost
CharlieSeattle
May 10, 2022 at 7:23 pm
This is a FEDERAL CRIME!
WTF are the mass arrests?
Jo Bejarano
May 11, 2022 at 1:50 pm
Where were all the protests during the illegal (and eventually deemed unnecessary by following the REAL science) mandates during the Covid lockdowns, social distancing ‘guidelines’, mandatory vaxxing, and MASKS, which also re-envisioned the “My body, my choice” mantra?!?
I guess when it also involved men and children that argument no longer fit the agenda–only the threat of redirecting the abortion (“murder of innocent babies in the womb”) problem back to the states, where it should have stayed to begin with, since it is NOT a Constitutional amendment, only a legal ruling.
Makes one wonder where the problem REALLY lies–if it’s women’s “reproductive rights” (actually ‘non-reproductive rights’) being attacked, why weren’t any ‘pre-reproductive’ rights exercised BEFORE there was any ‘reproduction’: condoms (for men AND women), the Pill (c’mon ladies, you even take them to regulate and alleviate painful menstrual cycles), IUD’s, Norplants, diaphragms, etc.? Even Xi Jin-Ping has removed all restrictions on the number of children the Chinese family may have when he was faced with the fact that his previous draconian limits resulted in a rapidly aging population and not enough young workers to replace them, which would cripple China economically for generations!
Seems to me that you all need to sit down, reflect and write out how you ACTUALLY feel about abortion (the act of killing a human infant), and make some attitude adjustments that doesn’t involve MURDER!! Most of all, don’t try to impose YOUR views onto the American PUBLIC!
Dennis Storey
May 12, 2022 at 9:22 pm
Just a bunch owomen with penis envy.