{"id":1545304,"date":"2022-07-08T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545304"},"modified":"2022-07-08T21:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T01:34:14","slug":"shutdowndc-promises-to-pay-tipsters-for-scotus-whereabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shutdowndc-promises-to-pay-tipsters-for-scotus-whereabouts\/","title":{"rendered":"ShutDownDC Promises To Pay Tipsters For SCOTUS Whereabouts"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fshutdowndc-promises-to-pay-tipsters-for-scotus-whereabouts%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=1545304&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--><p>ShutDownDC announced on Friday that organizers would pay anyone who could tip protesters off to the locations of the conservative Supreme Court justices \u2014 and the price increased if they were still at the named location 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>The call for tips went out after news broke that Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/police-arrest-armed-man-near-brett-kavanaughs-home-who-allegedly-wanted-to-kill-the-justice-report\/\">Brett Kavanaugh<\/a> had been forced to leave Morton\u2019s Steak House in Washington, D.C., through a rear exit in order to avoid a crowd of protesters gathered outside the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDC Service Industry Workers\u2026 If you see Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett or Roberts DM us with the details! We\u2019ll venmo you $50 for a confirmed sighting and $200 if they\u2019re still there 30 mins after your message,\u201d @ShutDown_DC\u2019s tweet read.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DC Service Industry Workers\u2026 If you see Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett or Roberts DM us with the details! <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll venmo you $50 for a confirmed sighting and $200 if they&#8217;re still there 30 mins after your message. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xXWZ5JZiE7\">https:\/\/t.co\/xXWZ5JZiE7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ShutDownDC (@ShutDown_DC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShutDown_DC\/status\/1545421407223521280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Politico\u2019s Daniel Lippman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/07\/08\/schumer-ups-pressure-on-mcconnell-in-usica-reconciliation-dance-00044652?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0000014c-2414-d9dd-a5ec-34bc527c0005&#038;nlid=630318\">reported<\/a> on Kavanaugh\u2019s disrupted dinner departure, noting, \u201cJustice Brett Kavanaugh had to exit through the rear of Morton\u2019s on Wednesday night after DC protestors showed up out front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Justice Brett Kavanaugh had to exit through the rear of Morton&#8217;s on Wednesday night after DC protestors showed up out front. A Morton&#8217;s rep told me: &#8220;Politics \u2026 should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wlA4J2nxYW\">https:\/\/t.co\/wlA4J2nxYW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jpsfhB3JVo\">pic.twitter.com\/jpsfhB3JVo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dlippman\/status\/1545357451234615298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lippman reported that Kavanaugh did not actually come into contact with any of the protesters but left the restaurant through a back door without staying for dessert.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from Morton\u2019s gave a statement after the incident, telling Politico, \u201cHonorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protestors while eating dinner at our Morton\u2019s restaurant. Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner. There is a time and place for everything. Disturbing the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and void of decency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy questioned Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the incident, asking whether President Joe Biden and his administration had any issues with protesters continuing to harass the conservative justices outside their homes or in public.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doocy on Kavanaugh being forced out of a DC restaurant by protesters: &#8220;So these Justices, because protesters do not agree with an opinion\u2026 have no right to privacy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre: &#8220;This is what a democracy is.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/26EIf4ptiZ\">pic.twitter.com\/26EIf4ptiZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1545472464511197185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should be allowed to be able to do that,\u201d Jean-Pierre replied. \u201cIf it\u2019s outside of a restaurant, if it\u2019s peaceful, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doocy pressed again, asking whether she meant that the administration was signing off on protesters following the justices around simply because they didn\u2019t like a ruling the court had issued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have the right \u2014 this is what a democracy is,\u201d Jean-Pierre insisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShutDownDC announced on Friday that organizers would pay anyone who could tip protesters off to the locations of the conservative Supreme Court justices \u2014 and the price increased if they were still at the named location 30 minutes later. 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