Biden’s Gatekeeper Just Gave A Thumbs Up To Harassing Supreme Court Justices!

Jen Psaki, the outgoing White House press secretary came under fire after she defended the ongoing protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices by demonstrators angered and upset over the court’s likely overturning of Roe v. Wade.

In the wake of a controversial leak suggesting the Supreme Court is set to overturn Roe v. Wade, left-wing funded protestors have been gathering outside the homes of Justices Samuel AlitoBrett Kavanaugh, and John Roberts in an effort to pressure the federal judges to abandon their planned anti-abortion rights ruling.

Clearly, the protests aim to intimidate the judiciary and appear to be illegal.

Title 18 of the U.S. Code, section 1507, makes protests outside the private residence of a federal judge a federal crime:

Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Many are worried that demonstrations planned for Wednesday might turn violent, which caused Psaki to speak out to defend the activists’ right to peaceful protests despite the potential legal concerns regarding gathering outside the justices’ private residences.

On Tuesday, during her daily White House briefing, Psaki evaded the question, accusing critics of hypocrisy (emphasis added):

I think I said yesterday, but I’m happy to repeat, because I think it’s important for everybody to hear, that the president long-standing view has been that violence, threats, and intimidation of any kind have no place in political discourse. And we believe, of course, in peaceful protest. What I do find is interesting, and I think many people have noted, is that there are voices on the right who have called out this protests that are happening while remaining silent for years on protests that have happened outside the homes of school board members, the Michigan Secretary of State, or including threats made to women seeking reproductive health care [sic], or even an insurrection [sic] against our capitol. So I know that there’s an outrage right now, I guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date, and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges’ homes, and that’s the president’s position, but the silence is pretty deafening about all of the other intimidation that we’ve seen to a number of people.

Breitbart further noted:

Psaki appeared to conflate protests outside a place of business (an abortion clinic) with protests at private residences, and protests at the private residences of individual government officials with protests aiming to sway to a Supreme Court case.

When the reporter alluded to the federal law against protests outside judges’ homes, given the pending case, Psaki was evasive again: “Well, but I think that intimidation and protest, intimidation outside of the homes of school board members, the Michigan secretary of state, you know, intimidation and threats, against people seeking legal reproductive health care [sic] and against our capitol and American democracy, also warrant some outrage, and we haven’t really seen that.”

Notably, Psaki did not deny that protesting outside a private residence constitutes an attempt to “intimidate” the justices.

Nonetheless, despite the legal concerns connected to protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, Psaki has reiterated her claims the White House supports peaceful protests.

Source: Breitbart,

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