If blockading vehicle entrances to the U.S. Supreme Court won’t stop justices, protesters led by the organizing group Shut Down D.C. plan to block the court’s pedestrian entrances.
On June 10, about 34 activists attended a Zoom meeting meant to finalize plans. An earlier activist planning meeting had more than 60 people present.
The protest was a response to a leaked draft opinion that suggested the high court’s six conservative justices planned to overturn Roe v. Wade.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion was a constitutional right and that legislators could only regulate it to a limited extent. But the Supreme Court’s leaked Dobbs v. Jackson draft decision would put decisions on abortion into the hands of state and national legislators….