DOJ Is Missing in Action as Leftists March on Justice Alito’s Home – Opinion

Protesters organized by the novel leftist group Shut Down DC marched to Justice Samuel Alito’s home in Virginia final night time. Whereas it’s unclear if Alito or his household had been dwelling, there was a really seen police presence in entrance of the house in addition to behind the gate within the yard of the house. The police presence included the state police.

The group had falsely claimed that the SCOTUS draft opinion written by Alito might deprive individuals of the best to issues corresponding to contraception and interracial marriage.

Protestors have arrived in entrance of Justice Alito’s home. Protestors are lighting a “vigil” for abortion rights, together with different points protestors are arguing will likely be threatened, together with contraception, interracial marriage, and LGBTQ rights pic.twitter.com/fnxU5ng428

— Nancy Vu (@NancyVu99) May 10, 2022

The “vigil” didn’t final lengthy, leaving after about twenty minutes. They left candles burning on the road and shouted curses on the dwelling as they left.

Warning for graphic language:

Professional-abortion protesters shout “Fuck you, Alito” and “abort the courtroom” as they depart his home. pic.twitter.com/g5dnB7TcIm

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) May 10, 2022

Townhall’s Julio Rosas reported there have been about 50 individuals who confirmed up. “Abort the Court docket” could possibly be taken as a risk as effectively.

Some had been upset that it was allowed in any respect given the federal legislation towards making an attempt to protest judges to affect their choices. Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy identified how the DOJ was very fast to demonize and goal mother and father however not fast in any respect to use the federal legislation on this case to cease the intimidation of the justices. Nobody has been arrested and the DOJ has not responded to a request from Fox to elucidate its inaction.

“They’re elevating their political curiosity in portraying the draft Supreme Court docket opinion as excessive over their constitutional responsibility to execute the legal guidelines faithfully and defend each the Court docket and the justices,” McCarthy mentioned. “I’d word that months in the past, when Lawyer Basic Garland unjustifiably dispatched the FBI to research mother and father who had been protesting the inclusion of racist and anti-American supplies in class curricula, Garland claimed that the Justice Division had an curiosity in defending academics and college directors. Not solely was it unfaithful that faculties had been underneath siege; the connection between mother and father and faculties is a state and native concern, not a federal one — hypothetically, if a mother or father had been to assault a instructor, it could be a state crime, not a federal one,” continued McCarthy. […]

“In contrast, the safety of the Supreme Court docket as an establishment, and of the justices’ safety, are obviously federal issues over which federal law-enforcement has clear jurisdiction. It’s inexcusable that the Justice Division is so silent and passive now, when it was loud and energetic over a manufactured controversy as to which it had no jurisdiction,” McCarthy informed Fox Information Digital.

The White Home has nonetheless not condemned protesting outdoors the justices’ properties or referred to as for it to cease. Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has particularly referred to as on the general public to behave to “enhance” the choice. Whereas Pelosi appears to be encouraging unhealthy actors, the Senate handed a bipartisan invoice to make sure extra safety for Supreme Court docket justices and their households. It nonetheless must be handed by the Home and signed by Joe Biden.

How a lot does it take to say: “There’s a federal legislation towards making an attempt to intimidate justices — take note of the legislation and specific yourselves in different methods”? But, they refuse to even do this and the DOJ can’t even defend one other department of the federal government. That is how a lot the Biden crew cares about democracy or norms in the event that they don’t serve their narrative.