{"id":1465708,"date":"2022-05-05T19:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T23:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465708"},"modified":"2022-05-05T19:14:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T23:14:47","slug":"psaki-says-there-is-no-official-u-s-government-position-on-activists-protesting-outside-scotus-justices-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-says-there-is-no-official-u-s-government-position-on-activists-protesting-outside-scotus-justices-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Says There Is No \u2018Official U.S. Government Position\u2019 On Activists Protesting Outside SCOTUS Justices\u2019 Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-says-there-is-no-official-u-s-government-position-on-activists-protesting-outside-scotus-justices-homes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465708&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1395406223.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that there was no \u201cofficial U.S. Government position\u201d on where protesters chose to gather, even if that meant they were publishing the home addresses of sitting Supreme Court justices.<\/p>\n<p>After congratulating Psaki\u2019s incoming replacement Karine Jean-Pierre on being named President Joe Biden\u2019s next press secretary, Fox News\u2019 Peter Doocy turned to the topic of planned protests over the recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/i-am-angry-elizabeth-warren-loses-it-over-leaked-supreme-court-draft-axing-roe\/\">leaked early opinion draft<\/a>\u00a0indicating that the Supreme Court could be poised to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/jen-psaki-wont-say-whether-biden-would-accept-roe-decision-as-legitimate\/\">overturn<\/a> landmark abortion cases\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doocy: &#8220;[Y]ou guys spent some time\u2026talking about what you think are\u2026extreme wings of the [GOP]. Do you think the progressive activists that are now planning protests outside of justices&#8217; houses are extreme?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Psaki: &#8220;Peaceful protests? No. Peaceful protest is not extreme.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2zeaY4qXzY\">pic.twitter.com\/2zeaY4qXzY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1522331046460723201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou guys spent some time yesterday talking about what you think are \u2026 extreme wings of the Republican Party. Do you think the progressive activists that are now planning protests outside of justices\u2019 houses are extreme?\u201d Doocy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeaceful protest? No. Peaceful protest is not extreme,\u201d Psaki replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of these justices have young kids. Their neighbors are not all public figures, so would the president think about waving off activists that want to go into residential neighborhoods in Virginia and Maryland?\u201d Doocy pressed again.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki pushed back, saying that the United States had a long documented history of allowing peaceful protest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Psaki: &#8220;We certainly encourage people to keep it peaceful &#038; not resort to\u2026violence. Let me tell you what I was referring to &#038; what [Biden] was referring to yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doocy: &#8220;Not about yesterday\u2026[They] posted a map with the home addresses of the Supreme Court justices.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0SJsZUhBC6\">pic.twitter.com\/0SJsZUhBC6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1522331982973313027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly encourage people to keep it peaceful and not resort to any level of violence. Let me tell you what I was referring to and what the president was referring to yesterday,\u201d Psaki attempted to redirect the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot about yesterday, just about moving forward \u2014 these activists posted a map with the home addresses of the Supreme Court justices,\u201d Doocy said. \u201cIs that the kind of thing this president wants to help your side make their point?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I think the president\u2019s view is that there\u2019s a lot of passion, a lot of fear, a lot of sadness from many, many people across this country about what they saw in that leaked document,\u201d Psaki replied, saying again that the White House supported peaceful protest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doocy: &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t care if [abortion activists are] protesting outside the Supreme Court or.. someone&#8217;s private residence?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Psaki: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have an official\u2026position on where people protest\u2026We want it\u2026to be peaceful\u2026.[They&#8217;re] protesting is b\/c women\u2026are worried[.]&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2K5hC5Il9u\">pic.twitter.com\/2K5hC5Il9u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1522333547457044480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t care if they\u2019re protesting outside the Supreme Court or outside someone\u2019s private residence?\u201d Doocy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have an official U.S. Government position on where people protest,\u201d Psaki replied. \u201cI want it \u2014 we want it of course to be peaceful \u2026 I think we shouldn\u2019t lose the point here, the reason people are protesting is because women across the country are worried about their fundamental rights that have been law for 50 years. Their rights to make choices about their own bodies and their own health care are at risk. That\u2019s why people are protesting \u2014 they\u2019re unhappy, they\u2019re scared.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that there was no \u201cofficial U.S. Government position\u201d on where protesters chose to gather, even if that meant they were publishing the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1481800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}