As I noted Sunday, #ShutDownDC was planning a huge event that would encircle the Supreme Court building and shut down all the streets around it.
Justices are not elected and must follow the law, not public opinion, so this isn’t a political protest in the acceptable sense. No number of people turning out to make their feelings known matters unless the issue is one before Congress, the sole Constitutionally-established legislative branch of government and one whose members depend on popular support for their political lives. The intent of amassing radical loons to surround the Court can only be to intimidate the Court into issuing a decision the angry mob demands.
As it turned out, however, not a lot of people turned up for the lawless intimidation and coercion attempt, and there was a large police presence that kept things from getting out of control.
Given that Team Hillary has recently taken over Black Lives Matter, it’s rather surprising that they don’t have their rent-a-mobs on hand to back up the pro-infanticide brigade.
Or is it? (archive link)
This is always what happens when you let radicals become your brownshirts and give them free rein to commit crimes against law-abiding citizens in the name of your cause. They eventually turn on you.
Interesting language here, they are “holding” the intersections? (archive link)
Anyway, not the banner day for shutting down SCOTUS, but then, they are waiting for the end of term when the decision is most likely to be released. So DC can expect these shutdowns to continue on each release date, possibly with growing numbers.
Not sure why they couldn’t “deploy” whatever grotesquerie they had planned. Possibly the police presence? Possibly the lack of news media there to get their message out far and wide? Possibly waiting for larger crowds? Who knows.
Anyway, the whole thing was pretty much a dud, even from their own reports. Antagonizing establishment Democrats is a bad plan, though, and they will indeed find themselves political prisoners alongside the J6 paraders if they push that line.
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