Taking fight to homes of justices
Pro-choice protesters vowed to descend on the homes of the six conservative Supreme Court justices on Saturday after posting their addresses online in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned. The pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us began circulating the justices’ addresses in the hours after the high court struck down the landmark case Friday and as violent protests broke out nationwide. Dozens of protesters showed up outside Justice Clarence Thomas’ home Friday night, chanting “no privacy for us, no peace for you!” and accusing his wife, Ginni, of being an “insurrectionist.” Some brandished signs reading “Thomas is a treasonous turd” and “Off with their d--ks.” The protesters issued a rallying call to target Thomas’ home again on Saturday, as well as the residences of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch, posts on social media showed. “Come to the handmaid’s house (or any of the theocrats) to say NO to theocracy,” one activist said on Twitter, in reference to Justice Coney Barrett.
Another apparent demonstrator planning to make noise outside Justice Gorsuch’s home tweeted: “Come say we will not go back. Resistance march in the neighborhood of ‘Justice’ Neil ‘I stole my seat’ Gorsuch.”
The Ruth Sent Us group has been posting up outside the conservative justices’ homes for weeks — since a draft version of the overturn opinion was leaked in May.
President Biden last week signed a bill to establish around-the-clock security for the justices and their families after protestors vowed to target family homes.
Protesters holding baby dolls and dressed in blood-stained clothes targeted Justice Coney Barrett’s house last week.
In the most high-profile incident, Californian Nicholas Roske, 26, was arrested outside Justice Kavanaugh’s home on June 8 after allegedly admitting to planning to kill him over outrage at the leaked opinion.
Despite Biden calling for protests to remain peaceful following the high court’s ruling, chaotic protests erupted across the US.
New Yorkers hit the streets on Saturday to protest the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
More than 300 people gathered in Union Square alone (top) to denounce the ruling.
Many wore green bandanas, a symbol for the pro-choice movement in Latin America, while some held signs saying, “Overthrow Roe? HELL NO!”
“I’m terribly upset about what’s going on in our country. I have always been an activist, and I feel it’s not my country anymore,” said protester Carol Silverman (left), a 79-year-old retired psychotherapist. “I’m angry. I’m frustrated. I’m not very optimistic.”
High-school grad Gwen Lohse, 17, said fighting for abortion rights has no age limit.
“I’m volunteering with women three, four times my age, and it’s so upsetting having to see them, who’ve already fought for it, work for it again,” she said.
In Brooklyn, former Rep. Max Rose, Councilman Justin Brannan and other local Dems joined abortion-rights advocates outside Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ Bay Ridge office to protest her pro-life policies. Irie Sentner, Steven Vago