Posted on 07/19/2022 1:22:19 PM PDT by Morgana
Multiple members of Congress including Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Alma Adams, D-N.C., were arrested by Capitol Police Tuesday afternoon outside the Supreme Court building during an abortion rights protest.
Adams' staff confirmed her arrest in a tweet from her official account. Omar's office confirmed her arrest to WCCO.
In a tweet, Omar remained defiant.
"Today I was arrested while participating in a civil disobedience action with my fellow Members of Congress outside the Supreme Court. I will continue to do everything in my power to raise the alarm about the assault on our reproductive rights!" she wrote.
Capitol Police warned demonstrators that they would be taking action.
"It is against the law to block traffic, so officers are going to give our standard three warnings before they start making arrests," Capitol Police tweeted.
Minutes later, they announced that "[s]ome of the demonstrators are refusing to get out of the street, so we are starting to make arrests."
Capitol Police later tweeted that they arrested 34 people in total, including 16 members of Congress.Video from the scene showed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., being led away by police with her arms crossed behind her back, though no handcuffs were visible.
Authorities did not specify which members of Congress were arrested.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., released a statement after her arrest, saying "there is no democracy if women don't have control over their own bodies and decisions about their own health, including reproductive are."
"I have the privilege of representing a state where reproductive rights are respected and protected – the least I can do is put my body on the line for the 33 million women at risk of losing their rights," she said.
Rep, Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., also took part in the demonstration.
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Squaw INSURRECTION! Get the FIBBIES on this. Throw them in jail!
Oh, Jesus. I mean Oh, Allah.
“”there is no democracy if women don’t have control over their own bodies and decisions about their own health, including reproductive are.”
I’ve decided these women are too stupid to use birth control or even self-control.
Perhaps it is better if they DO NOT reproduce.
I looked on this site but could see no mugshot, do they have one?
“I’ve decided these women are too stupid to use birth control or even self-control.
Perhaps it is better if they DO NOT reproduce.”
That is still no reason to kill a baby
Insurrectionists gonna insurrect.
And AOC tried to make it look as if she were cuffed.
Do they think hat the SC is going to “review” their finding?
The power lies with the states and with Congress. Someone should have asked her why she hadn’t introduced a bill codifying Roe.
Deport all the Biatches.
They pretended to be handcuffed. If you look at still photos their hands are behind their backs, but in the moving image they stop and wave at people, no handcuffs. Such stupid nonsense.
This is a direct violation of the constitution separation of powers. Some would call it an attempted insurrection.
Is Omar a Islamist or a Comminist?
We’re not a democracy and you’re too stupid to be here. Get your buddy Ilhan to take you with her to Somalia and stay there. Take some more stupid Democrats with you.
Your sarcasm meter is off.
7/19 commission in 3, 2, .......
One year in solitary before trials held in Texas for equality in juries.
In a just society, the USSC would rule that a heartbeat is a living human being, and in America, killing that human being INTENTIONALLY is simply Murder.
Please note: I'm not a Biologist.....
Throw her in solitary in the DC gulag
Virtue-signaling Drama Queens all proud to stand up for slaughtering innocent babies.
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