{"id":6542,"date":"2022-05-11T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T22:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2022-05-11T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T22:45:32","slug":"intimidating-justices-and-their-children-at-home-is-illegal-as-well-as-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=6542","title":{"rendered":"Intimidating Justices and Their Children at Home Is Illegal as Well as Disgusting"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the unprecedented leak of a draft of a possible SCOTUS decision on the case overruling Roe v. Wade, pro-abortion activists have decided it would be a good idea to flock en masse outside the neighborhood<\/em> homes<\/em> of the Justices to make sure they know that, if the “wrong” decision were handed come late June, they would, in Chuck Schmer’s words, “pay the price.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Gathering in menacing mobs at the homes of Justices has been defended by exactly those people who, for four years, were loudly aghast at the “breaking of norms.”\u00a0 But as it turns out, the mob activity is not merely disgusting but illegal\u00a0 —\u00a0 or at least such is the view of that right-wing rag, the Washington Post.\u00a0 Its article<\/a> is quoted in part below.<\/p>\n

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As the Post puts\u00a0 it:<\/p>\n

[T]he comparison between protesting a politician at home and a member of the judiciary at home is inexact. And experts say the latter category of protests is probably illegal regardless of how peaceful the demonstrations are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At issue is a statute enacted in 1950:\u00a0Title 18, Section 1507, of the U.S. Code<\/a>. The law states that it is illegal, \u201cwith the intent of influencing any judge,\u201d to:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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