White House urges peaceful protests, support for judges in wake of abortion rights demonstrations

[riversedge]

Source: the hill




by Alex Gangitano - 05/09/22 9:39 AM ET


White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday in the wake of abortion rights protests over the weekend that demonstrations should not involve violence and expressed President Biden’s support for judges.

“[Biden] strongly believes in the Constitutional right to protest. But that should never include violence, threats, or vandalism” Psaki said.

“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.

Dozens of protesters chanted outside the Washington, D.C.-area homes of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Robert over the weekend, and demonstrations are expected to continue throughout the week.

Protests are also planned in front of Justice Samuel Alito’s residence in Washington, WUSA9 reported.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/news/administration/3481574-white-house-urges-peaceful-protests-support-for-judges-in-wake-of-abortion-rights-demonstrations/

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Glad to see the protests. And hoping we all keep our cool and not give the RW an opportunity to crap on us further. But we know they will even if there is no violence.

Link to tweet

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[DonCoquixote]

1. nice thought

but the other side is already urging killing.

[speak easy]

2. Congress performs an incredibly important function in our society

and must be able to do its job without concern for personal safety.

[Paladin]

32. My sentiments exactly. (nt)

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Couldn't be more peaceful and respectful, given the extremely exigent circumstances

Link to tweet

[Traildogbob]

6. Glad to

See these responses about playing nice with Terrorists. Maybe we should send arm militias decked out in Walmart soldier camo and threatened to kidnap and execute them. Worked for those going after a Governor that stood up for election results. Obviously, I am not calling for that, but those that did, and planned a kidnap and execution, walked away, thanks to Judges we NEED to support for the hard jobs they do. Sooty WH, I will not suppprt a branch of government hell bent on ending Democrat. I did not serve for that outcome, and May oath said not to, to fight like hell to protect our rights and constitution. So…. Thanks Jen, but hell no. I will fight like hell again. This time, it’s my daughters life I will fight for. Damn well believe I will bleed for her. My first service was for the country, this time it’s personal. Now Against these perjured lying ass corporate owned judges. Justice needs to be taken, we sure as hell are not getting any. Direct result of hard working must be respected judges.

[AZLD4Candidate]

16. Abortion clinics? This RW meme needs to go. They are pre-natal clinics that do abortions

Abortion clinic makes it sound like women are on conveyor belts with legs spread ready to get their babies flushed. I literally hate the that term.

But I also know "pre-natal center where licensed ob-gyns given women pre-natal care that could include abortion services" doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.

[Magoo48]

25. Peaceful yes. Everything else, keep pushing bigger, and harder, and louder, and consistently.

[Nictuku]

5. Beware - Agents Provocateur

[ShepKat]

7. someone brought up yesterday that -

the insurrectionists are poking the 'other side' to get them to do the same type jan 6 crime

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. I doubt sincerely 100% that will happen. No one will storm Congress or SCOTUS building over this

But they will be loud and they will be focused.

Don't you love both siderism?

[ShepKat]

19. I agree

but I don't doubt they will try to portray US as unhinged

[AZLD4Candidate]

22. Oh. . .one mistake. one arrest and it will be all over the news. Peaceful gets nothing except

"mostly peaceful."

And if there is an arrest or even a minor scuffle, media will be all over and barking heads on TV will play both siderism with more emphasis on our side.

It will be like the civil rights marches. If a white person got so much as a fingernail scratch, it was blasted that "civil rights march turns into riot."

And just the the WTO march in Seattle where police pepper sprayed sitting, unarmed protesters. . .I expect the police to do the same if given the opportunity, as well as trumping up as many charges as they can (resisting arrest when no one has been arrested, living while black, 2rd degree young person with smart mouth, breathing in public, etc).

[Magoo48]

34. No, not storm, but surround with 100,000 in a tent city, for the duration, that I support.

[Delmette2.0]

8. I am against violence of all kinds.

Alito is frighten of physical violence and had every right to leave his home and seek safety.

SO DO WOMEN! We need the safety of legal abortions.
We need a safe way out of pregnancy when it is dangerous to our life.
We need a safe way to continue our education.
We need need a safe way to heal emotional wounds after being raped.

[hamsterjill]

30. I thought it was a made up story that Alito left his home?

Was it ever verified?

[NewHendoLib]

9. Support for judges???

[Traildogbob]

12. Hugging those fools will not save women's rights.

At pro choices rallies, we need to play the “Chicks”, “Not Ready to Play Nice”, directed at the WH request to take the high road. Where has that gotten us? Unlike trumps choices of songs, I would bet the Chicks would fully approve. Maybe even perform it live.

[Magoo48]

26. I don't support authoritarians, Christofascists, or cultist handmaidens.

[blm]

10. My bet would be that RightWing extremists infiltrate and

try to spark violence the way they did at the Floyd protests.

RightWingers even killed law enforcement officers and burned down police stations knowing the kneejerk reaction would be to blame BLM.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-17/far-right-boogaloo-boys-linked-to-killing-of-california-lawmen-other-violence


‘Boogaloo Boi’ charged in fire of Minneapolis police precinct during George Floyd protest
Ivan Harrison Hunter, a Texas rightwing extremist, bragged about helping to set the fire then was seen shooting 13 rounds at the….


Minneapolis police say 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting

[Novara]

11. Support judges????

The way they support taking MY rights away?

FUCK THAT.

As I said before: if you're going to be in my uterus, I'm gonna be on your fucking front lawn.

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. No. . .if they want to be in your baby's home, you are gonna be in their home.

[orleans]

35. +1 nt

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. Peacefu? We're not the ones with tiki torches, attacking people, and saying "Jews won't replace us"

Support judges that destroy basic human rights and choice? Not on this planet. Wearing a black robe Halloween costume doesn't shield you from scorn and criticism just like wearing a police officer's Halloween costume shouldn't given you special rights and privileges like qualified immunity.

Sorry, Mr. Biden. I agree with you on a lot, but these statement are like "both siderism" to me.

We protest, yell, march, hold signs, and try to improve society. They riot, shoot people, run people over, attack people, and are trying establish fascism here.

[DonCoquixote]

20. thank you for saying what I said better than I did

I am not saying we need to make a left wing proud boys (proud Girls?), that would only play into the people willing to see everyone fight and pick the bones, but at some point we need to let the other side know that no, we have been polite enough, yes we have been quiet enough, and that if you start to use force, you will learn that no, you are not going to win just because you have guns, because frankly, the ladies can teach you things, just like Ukrainian grandmothers are teaching your Russian heroes some himility.

[The Grand Illuminist]

27. The sad part is

They are winning.

[AZLD4Candidate]

28. Pandering to the bottom and reinforcing natural prejudices while telling people they are great and

a nebulous, abstract enemy is holding you down or preventing you from succeeding is an easy practice because no one likes looking in a mirror. It's always someone else's fault.

We know a funny little man in a box mustache and a fatheaded Italian that did the same thing.

So did a Chinese man with a mole on his chin, a doctor from haiti, an unwanted child in Iraq, and a street thug from western Russia.

Intelligence needs work because people are born ignorant. "Give me a child until he is seven and he's mine forever" - attributed to Goebbels.

[Irish_Dem]

17. GOP has started a civil war and everyone is shocked we are fighting back.

At long last.

I am a pacifist at heart. But if provoked strongly I will fight like hell.
And win.

[Marthe48]

18. why support crooked judges sitting illegally?

I wouldn't support a neighbor, friend or relative who was so egregious in their criminal decisions, and I refuse to support people who lied and subverted our justice system to force their own views on the majority of Americans. Not just the 3 illegal judges, but the conflict of interest husband and the judge wearing the wrong robes.

Make it right, Mr. President. Or direct whoever can make it right to do so.

[in2herbs]

21. Biden's comment, via Psaki, makes me wonder what kind of changes he has said

will happen if Roe is overturned.

We won't (and shouldn't) leave them alone until they leave us alone. This fight for women's freedom has been going on more than 50 years.

It stops now.l

[The Grand Illuminist]

23. Then nothing will be done.

nt

[intheflow]

24. Wow, bad take.

The protesters are being peaceful, unless you narrowly define peace as the absence of noise. Biden/Psaki should have lead by praising the demonstrators for their restraint.

[MontanaMama]

29. The insurrectionist party wants nothing more than

for peaceful pro-choice protesters to be labeled a violent mob. I'll assume that the WH wants to remind protesters to keep it peaceful. That said, not sure the reminder was necessary as protests to my knowledge have been peaceful.

As far as respecting SCOTUS judges who lied to America to get their jobs, eff them up one side and down the other. I'm sure it is unnerving to have protesters outside your home. You get what you get when you take rights away from more than 50% of the population.

[hamsterjill]

31. That's going to happen regardless of what our side does unfortunately.

The right will invent something if they can’t provoke it.

[2Gingersnaps]

33. Soooooo, when a very loud vocal violent minority refuse to accept majority rule,

we tread lightly. When they abuse other peoples rights, break the law, and even take them away we protect them. Got it.