Tag: US Supreme Court

Supreme Court Blockade Protest Meeting Won’t Denounce Violence

WASHINGTON—As Washington’s authorities brace for violence over Supreme Court verdicts, activist planners told followers not to oppose violence. At a Sunday meeting hosted in Petworth United Methodist Church and run by the organizing group, Shut Down DC, several activist leaders announced that violence was counterproductive to their group’s own strategy, but not necessarily bad. Shut…


Supreme Court Protest Organizers Won’t Rule Out Violence

WASHINGTON—As officials in Washington brace for possible violence following a Supreme Court decision about access to abortion, organizers of a group planning protests at the high court told followers not to oppose the use of violence. Leaders of the group “Shut Down DC” stated at an organizing meeting at Petworth United Methodist Church in D.C….


Protesters Attempt to Finalize Supreme Court Shutdown Scheme in Chaotic Meeting

If blockading vehicle entrances to the U.S. Supreme Court won’t stop justices, protesters led by the organizing group Shut Down D.C. plan to block the court’s pedestrian entrances. On June 10, about 34 activists attended a Zoom meeting meant to finalize plans. An earlier activist planning meeting had more than 60 people present. The protest…


Protesters Finalizing Plans For Blockade of Supreme Court on June 13

Protesters planning to blockade the Supreme Court say they expect to be arrested for their actions but would break the law anyway. In an online meeting organized by Shut Down D.C., several activist groups joined forces to plan how to prevent justices from entering the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13. The protest is a…


Police Will ‘Monitor’ Abortion Protests Near the Supreme Court

Washington police say they are aware of proposed protests near the Supreme Court and will plan accordingly. Protest organizing group Shut Down D.C. has said that it will blockade the court on June 13 in response to a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that suggests the justices might overturn Roe v. Wade. In Roe v. Wade,…


Police Will ‘Monitor’ Abortion Protests Near Supreme Court

Washington police say they’re aware of proposed protests near the Supreme Court and will plan accordingly. Protest organizing group Shut Down D.C. has said that it will blockade the court on June 13 in response to a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that suggests the justices might overturn Roe v. Wade. In Roe v. Wade,…


Barbara Kay: Progressives’ Reaction to Roe v. Wade Leak Shows How Rage Has Become Normalized

Commentary In the 1960s, they were called the “days of rage.” They are back, but the rage isn’t contained within a rebellious cadre of American anti-war, anti-establishment students, almost universally at the time labelled “radicals.” Today, under the banner of anti-racism, human rights, and social justice, rage has become normalized at the highest levels of…


Kansas August Referendum To Be First Post-Roe Electoral Clash

The first ballot test of the post-Roe era will be on Aug. 2 when Kansas voters are presented with a proposed constitutional amendment that declares there is no constitutional right to abortion. The Kansas Value Them Both Amendment will be the first of at least four proposed constitutional amendments addressing abortion certain to go before…


Rex Murphy: ‘I’m Not a Biologist’: The Strange and Fantastical World of Being Willingly Blind to Reality

Commentary The nomination of the latest U.S. Supreme Court judge is over and successful, but it will be some time before any reasonable person will be able to digest the most sublime moment of the hearings which preceded the elevation. That was when the first black female ever to be nominated was asked if she—the…


Book Review: ‘The Credentialed Court’: A Look at the Elitism of the Modern Supreme Court

Benjamin H. Barton, the author of “The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice,” thinks the Supreme Court should be more diverse. But not in the way you may think, and definitely not in the way President Joe Biden thinks. In fact, it’s not in the way any of America’s recent presidents…