Posted on 05/09/2022 9:18:47 AM PDT by lightman
MENU ABOUT US MAKE A DONATION The Epoch Times Police officers in Maryland are prepared to help provide security for Supreme Court justices, Gov. Larry Hogan’s office says.
“The governor directed state law enforcement leaders to work with local and federal partners and be prepared to assist in the event there is a need for increased security and protective measures,” Michael Ricci, a spokesman for the governor, told The Epoch Times via email.
Both the Maryland State Police and the Maryland Center for Analysis & Coordination are closely coordinating with federal and local partners, including the Supreme Court Police and the Montgomery County Police Department, he added.
Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, and John Roberts live in Maryland.
Pro-abortion groups have been gathering outside their homes in recent days after a draft opinion authored by Alito was released, indicating the court is poised to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Video footage showed protesters outside Kavanaugh’s home chanting “no uterus, no opinion.” The group later shouted “the world is watching” while near Roberts’ abode.
The Supreme Court has not commented on the protests.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said May 9 that President Joe Biden “strongly believes in the constitutional right to protest.”
“But that should never include violence, threats, or vandalism. Judges perform an incredibly important function in our society, and they must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety,” she added.
Three other justices—Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch—live in Virginia.
Macaulay Porter, a spokeswoman for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, told The Epoch Times over the weekend that state police there are monitoring the protests to make sure the justices are safe.
“The governor is aware and Virginia State Police will monitor the situation,” Porter said, adding that the police “will assist federal and local law enforcement as needed to ensure the safety of our citizens, including Supreme Court justices, who call Virginia home.”
No arrests have been reported at the protests that have taken place so far.
Protests at all six of the homes are planned for May 11 by a group called Ruth Sent Us. The group, which supports abortion, has said the protests will be peaceful.
Roberts said shortly after the leak that the release of the draft statement “will not succeed” in “undermin[ing] the integrity of our operations” while Thomas during a recent judicial conference said the Supreme Court “can’t be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want.”
Maryland ping.
“no uterus, no opinion.”
Transphobes!
Hogan’s only doing this because Youngkin was making him look bad.
And you know you can trust babybutchers. Just ask any kid in the dumpster behind a Planned Parenthood shop. \sarc
Headline was cut off, I completed it.
they are breaking the law but the state is just monitoring
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said May 9 that President Joe Biden “strongly believes in the constitutional right to protest.”
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I seem to remember when the Governor of Michigan claimed that the mere presence of groups protesting covid mandates were a threat, and implied there were terrorists.
Just today, the (former?) BLM founder claimed that the presence of journalists outside her home was a threat.
The hipocrisy always abounds.
Frankly, I think you shouldn’t be harassed at your own residence. That doesn’t stop the left from using it as a political harassment tactic, and apologizing for it publicly when they do (like Psaki), but turn around and decry them as a threat when it happens to them.
They should still move to Virginia.
The threats must not be polling well for Rats...
Please call your two Senators, ask them to publicly call for Secret Service protection for all Supreme Court Justices and their families!
Switchboard
(202) 224-3121
Ask for the Senate offices of your state.
They gave SS protection to Fauci and Jarrett, they better give them to SC or someone will get hurt.
Prepared to begin to think about planning to . . .
SS is more likely to be assassins of SC Justices than to protect them. This ain’t the 1950s.
The optics suck too. Why is it that the women who are the most manically strident about abortion are the women who appear to be the most unlikely to get pregnant for the simple reason that they are the most unlikely to have heterosexual sex in the first place. Seriously, the women at these protests are seriously unattractive, ugly on the outside and even uglier on the inside fanatical militants who appear to be predominantly lesbians who crave the destruction of the nuclear family.
The justices already have protection details.
There is no such right.
“The justices already have protection details.”
Not SS, who has resources and (most important) intelligence. They’ll monitor social media, etc. Nobody compares.
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