{"id":1465936,"date":"2022-05-06T07:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465936"},"modified":"2022-05-06T07:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:45:32","slug":"meet-the-leftist-groups-targeting-scotus-justices-and-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-leftist-groups-targeting-scotus-justices-and-their-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Leftist Groups Targeting SCOTUS Justices and Their Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fmeet-the-leftist-groups-targeting-scotus-justices-and-their-families%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=1465936&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><\/div>\n<p>A shadowy left-wing group operating under the moniker \u201cRuth Sent Us\u201d is asking activists to target Supreme Court justices who may overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/05\/left-wing-group-bribes-abortion-radicals-with-stipends-for-participating-in-intimidation-protests-at-justices-homes\/\">demonstrations<\/a> at their private homes. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the group published the alleged home locations of the six conservative justices who heard Mississippi\u2019s request to return the abortion debate to the states by overturning the 1973 decision. A <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/03\/before-finally-overturning-roe-supreme-court-must-block-yet-another-insurrection-attempt\/\">February draft opinion<\/a> leaked to Politico on Monday revealed five out of the six, Justices Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch, were planning to vote to overturn the <em>Roe <\/em>decision with Chief Justice John Roberts remaining undecided. Each of their homes is targeted for protests between now and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 6-3 extremist Supreme Court routinely issues rulings that hurt women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights,\u201d reads the group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruthsent.us\/\">website<\/a>. \u201cWe must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stipends are being offered to artists who join the march. Payment and compensation were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/09\/05\/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-disruptions-testimony-coordinated-supreme-court\/1201785002\/\">offered<\/a> to protesters who came to Washington to disrupt the constitutional proceedings at the Senate to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The organizing group\u2019s leadership remains concealed on its website, even though it uses a .us URL. Websites with a .us URL are unusual, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2005\/03\/domain-owners-lose-privacy\/\">according<\/a> to Wired in 2005, new registrants could not include privacy protection in .us domain name purchases. RuthSent.us, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/whois.domaintools.com\/ruthsent.us\">redacted<\/a> information related to its owners\u2019 purchase. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/whois.us\/\">online domain tool<\/a>, \u201cWHOIS,\u201d revealed the name Sam Spiegel as its registrant along with a P.O. box. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/fecimg\/?C00640185\">According<\/a> to 2018 filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Spiegel is named as treasurer of the political action committee, Unseat. Spiegel\u2019s name is used for the Unseat PAC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNSEATpac\">Twitter page<\/a>, amplifying videos from MeidasTouch.com going after conservative justices for their potential reversal of the decision in <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Unseat\u2019s pinned post is an attack on Justice Kavanaugh claiming without evidence that his seat on the high bench was purchased. The group hasn\u2019t filed with the FEC for years. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/pdf\/562\/201705129053522562\/201705129053522562.pdf#navpanes=0\">FEC statement<\/a> for the Unseat PAC lists Spiegel with the same P. O. box that the domain tool yielded for RuthSent.us. The statement also revealed another name, Vara Ramakrishnan, whose apparent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vara.ramakrishnan\">Facebook page<\/a> includes references to #StrikeForChoice and links to RefuseFascism.org.   The \u201cRuth Sent Us\u201d website <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCNSeverino\/status\/1522215533566783488\">links<\/a> to Strike For Choice, which shows \u201cconnections to groups including Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, Women\u2019s March SF, Kavanaugh Off Our Court, and Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights,\u201d as Judicial Network\u2019s Carrie Severino noted.<\/p>\n<p>Ramakrishnan\u2019s name is also associated with another group called \u201cVigil for Democracy,\u201d an LLC registered in Arizona in October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizapedia.com\/az\/vigil-for-democracy-llc.html\">according<\/a> to Bizapedia, an online company search engine. Vigil for Democracy is marked as a sponsor of the map posted on RuthSent.us that outlines where justices might live. <\/p>\n<p>Another name associated with Vigil for Democracy is Snowden Bishop, a left-wing radio host. Bishop\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/snowdenbishop\/\">LinkedIn page<\/a> identifies her as a \u201cprincipal\u201d of Vigil for Democracy and another group called \u201cJust Resisting.\u201d Just Resisting\u2019s Twitter page is run by the name \u201cJustin Russell,\u201d who is <a href=\"https:\/\/opencollective.com\/vigilfordemocracy\">listed<\/a> alongside Bishop as an administrator of Vigil for Democracy\u2019s fundraising page on Open Collective. <\/p>\n<p>Left-wing agitators have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/brett-kavanaugh-abortion-protest\/2021\/09\/14\/3973efc8-1574-11ec-9589-31ac3173c2e5_story.html\">previously targeted<\/a> the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, where he lives with his wife and children. The move received condemnation from senators of both parties.<\/p>\n<p>However, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has explicitly threatened both Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch. At a protest in 2020 on the steps of the Supreme Court, which this week is under siege by left-wing activists and has anti-riot fencing protecting it, Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/03\/05\/what-schumer-really-meant-when-he-told-kavanaugh-gorsuch-you-wont-know-what-hit-you\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cI want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won\u2019t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The threat against these justices if they didn\u2019t rule the way Schumer preferred received pushback from other Democrats and Chief Justice John Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>The funding for the elaborate network of left-wing groups orchestrating and paying for these attacks on the constitutional process of judicial confirmations, at the Supreme Court itself, and at the homes of the justices remains unclear at this time.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shadowy left-wing group operating under the moniker \u201cRuth Sent Us\u201d is asking activists to target Supreme Court justices who may overturn Roe v. 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