Posted on 05/08/2022 4:29:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Every kid on the playgrounds knew that if you showed fear before bullies, they’d be stealing your lunch money next.
Much has been written this week about the pro-abortionists’ plans to picket the homes of the six Republican-appointed justices over the egregiously leaked Alito draft overturning Roe v. Wade. Those criticisms, which I summarize below, are certainly valid. If we had an attorney general who cared about enforcing the law, he’d seek injunctive relief and criminal penalties for such conduct. If AG Merrick Garland fails to do so, the attorney general of Virginia, Jason S. Miyares, may step in to preclude any such protests in his state. But I think the rowdies got their ideas from Chief Justice Roberts’s strange role in the ObamaCare case mandate challenge and in the Left's success in rampaging and terrorizing the country after the death in custody of George Floyd.
When I want a good legal analysis, one of the first places I turn to is the Volokh Conspiracy, and in particular, the lucid and persuasive analyses by Professor Eugene Volokh. This week he explains why picketing the judges’ residence with the intent to influence them violates federal law. (And the intent is to influence, obviously because this is just a draft, not a final, opinion.)
The relevant statute is 18 U.S.C. Sec.1507 which reads:
1. Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or
2. with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty,
3. pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or
4. in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Spot on!!
I hope the judges have rifles.
What if a mob of protesters showed up at the Wise Latinx’s house chanting, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Roe has got to go,” whenever a mob showed up at Alito’s house?
Thanks!
Garland is probably thinking “if I had been confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice in 2016, this ruling would have gone the other way.” So why should he be concerned with the safety of the conservative justices?
And conservatives in any branch of government are probably thinking the same about him.
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