{"id":1468226,"date":"2022-05-08T19:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T23:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468226"},"modified":"2022-05-08T19:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T23:44:39","slug":"we-cant-tolerate-intimidation-chuck-grassley-torches-protesters-attempting-to-bully-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-cant-tolerate-intimidation-chuck-grassley-torches-protesters-attempting-to-bully-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Can\u2019t Tolerate Intimidation\u2019: Chuck Grassley Torches Protesters Attempting To Bully Supreme Court"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fwe-cant-tolerate-intimidation-chuck-grassley-torches-protesters-attempting-to-bully-supreme-court%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=1468226&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-1239815050.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) made it clear on Sunday that he had no patience for protesters who had made their way into private neighborhoods to stake out the homes of Supreme Court Justices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t tolerate intimidation as a political tool It\u2019s 1 thing to peacefully demonstrate &#038; another to undermine institutions like SCOTUS+harass justices at home bc of a decision u might not like And ANYONE making threats of violence should be arrested &#038; prosecuted,\u201d Grassley tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We can\u2019t tolerate intimidation as a political tool It\u2019s 1 thing to peacefully demonstrate &#038; another to undermine institutions like SCOTUS+harass justices at home bc of a decision u might not like And ANYONE making threats of violence should be arrested &#038; prosecuted<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckGrassley\/status\/1523323861038686210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Grassley\u2019s comments came after pro-abortion protesters planned protests outside the homes of conservative justices protesting the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/clarence-thomas-speaks-out-on-draft-leak-says-court-cant-be-bullied\/\">early-decision draft<\/a> that was leaked early last week. The draft, written by Justice Samuel Alito, indicated that the court could be poised to overturn two landmark abortion rulings \u2013\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us \u2014 named for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg \u2014 distributed maps showing the general locations of some of the justices\u2019 homes, prompting Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy to ask Press Secretary Jen Psaki for a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/psaki-says-there-is-no-official-u-s-government-position-on-activists-protesting-outside-scotus-justices-homes\/\">response<\/a>.<\/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<p>In addition to protesting outside the homes of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts, some pro-abortion activists gathered to disrupt church services as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">A pro-abortion group is not only calling for the targeting of <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">justices<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> at their <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">homes<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> for <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">protests<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> but declaring \u201cWe\u2019ll be burning the Eucharist\u201d to <\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">protest<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> the Catholic Church\u2019s view of abortion as a sin.<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u00a0It is the liberating license of rage,\u201d George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1523277582644523008\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Protesters have blocked church\u2019s before Mother\u2019s Day services,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1523279327408046081\">added<\/a>. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Much like targeting the homes of justices, these protests are not designed to change minds but to vent rage. The Church has opposed abortion as a sin for centuries as a matter of faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) made it clear on Sunday that he had no patience for protesters who had made their way into private neighborhoods to stake out the homes of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1482048,"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-1468226","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\/1468226","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=1468226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}