Posted on 06/25/2022 1:24:31 AM PDT by Morgana
The District Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., announced Friday that the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is closed due to "safety concerns" after a Roe v. Wade protest blocked the bridge, which is south of the U.S. Capitol.
The closure is expected to remain until further notice, according to the department. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Police Department initiated a full departmental activation through Tuesday in response to the protests at the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a statement by the D.C. police department.
The department added that the D.C. Homeland Security and the Emergency Management Agency are actively monitoring the situation and sharing information with federal partners.
The law enforcement response came shortly after the Supreme Court ruled Friday morning in Dobbs v. Jason Women's Health Organization to overturn the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision that allowed women to have abortions nationwide.
The landmark 1973 ruling protected women who are seeking an abortion "without undue restrictive interference from the government," guaranteed under the 14th Amendment. Planned Parenthood v. Casey from 1992, which mostly protected the same rights, was also repealed under the new court decision.
The SCOTUS decision came nearly a month after Politico obtained a leaked draft in early May stating a majority opinion of the court's justices who backed overturning Roe v. Wade.
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Do the rest of us a favor and shut down all of DC, permanently.
Methinks after this it might be
The government shut down the bridge NOT protesters. Why didn’t government do its job and clear the bridge? Well, because government is partisan and wants to lash out.
Shutting down DC... Seems like a great idea.
Insurrection.
“We must give those who wish to destroy, space to do that...”
I spent a couple of decades crossing the South Capitol/Douglas Bridge when I was at the Navy Yard and Ft. McNair. I went back for the first time since I retired a couple of months ago and the new bridge and its approaches completely changed I-295 intersection that leads to the bridge from the southeast and on the other side as well, next to the baseball stadium.
actively monitoring = sitting around with their thumb up their ass
Temper tantrum by the short bus kids who don’t know how this whole representative republic thing works.
Will Nancy Pelosi have 600 people arrested and held without bail?
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