{"id":1930284,"date":"2023-05-13T08:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T12:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-protest-near-home-of-scotus-justice-clarence-thomas-amid-democrat-ethics-probe\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T12:12:13","slug":"activists-protest-near-home-of-scotus-justice-clarence-thomas-amid-democrat-ethics-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-protest-near-home-of-scotus-justice-clarence-thomas-amid-democrat-ethics-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters demonstrate near home of SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas during Democrat ethics investigation."},"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\">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%2Factivists-protest-near-home-of-scotus-justice-clarence-thomas-amid-democrat-ethics-probe%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=1930284&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--><h2>Pro-Abortion Advocates Gather Outside Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019 Home<\/h2>\n<h3>Controversial Protest Potentially Illegal Under Federal Law<\/h3>\n<p>On May 11, pro-abortion advocates gathered outside the Virginia neighborhood of Justice Clarence Thomas for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-memo-indicates-biden-administration-preparing-for-violence-after-abortion-ruling\/\" title=\"Leaked Memo Indicates Biden Administration Preparing for Violence After Abortion Ruling\">potentially illegal protest<\/a>. The abortion advocacy group \u201cRuth Sent Us\u201d flew banners with controversial messages and engaged in chants against the Thomases. The protest was the most recent in a series of protests at the homes of conservative justices.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Banners read \u201cSay no to Christo-Fascism,\u201d \u201c[expletive] Thomas,\u201d and Antifa pride flags.<\/li>\n<li>Another banner read, \u201cAn unethical judiciary makes a mockery of this democracy,\u201d referencing allegations that Thomas committed ethical violations.<\/li>\n<li>Protesters engaged in chants such as \u201cTwo, four, six, eight, Thomas is a reprobate\u201d and \u201cGinni Thomas is an insurrectionist.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>At least one protester flew a \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d flag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under U.S. Code Section 1507, protesters are forbidden from picketing near the homes of judges \u201cwith the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge.\u201d Despite this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorneys-claim-government-manufacturing-evidence-to-charge-incarcerate-jan-6-prisoners\/\" title=\"Attorneys Claim Government Manufacturing Evidence to Charge, Incarcerate Jan. 6 Prisoners\">law enforcement officers present<\/a> at the protest refused to answer questions about their refusal to enforce Section 1507. No arrests or attempts to disperse the protesters were made.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters\u2019 claims centered around ethical concerns over the Thomases, with one protester stating, \u201cAn unethical judiciary makes a mockery of this democracy.\u201d However, Republicans argue that Democrats are conducting a witch hunt against Thomas and the court in general because of its conservative majority.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) had circulated a training memo explicitly directing Marshals not to make arrests under Section 1507, according to Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.\u2014Pro-abortion advocates on May 11 gathered outside the Virginia neighborhood of Justice Clarence Thomas for a protest that was potentially illegal under federal law. With a contingent of Fairfax County police officers nearby guarding the private road leading to Thomas\u2019 home, the abortion advocacy group \u201cRuth Sent Us\u201d mounted the protest as the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1930285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[10217,4912,24985,4381,3976,4901,4007,6994,10215],"class_list":["post-1930284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-clarence","tag-democrat","tag-demonstrate","tag-ethics","tag-investigation","tag-justice","tag-protesters","tag-scotus","tag-thomas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930284","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}