Activists who have protested outside the homes of the Supreme Court justices have ties to communist groups, Black Lives Matter, and other incendiary protest organizations.
Polling released in late July found that the majority of Americans want the Department of Justice (DOJ) to crack down on protesting outside the Maryland and Virginia homes of Supreme Court justices. Yet groups like Our Rights DC continue to call for weekly protesting.
These groups — and the individuals associated with them — are often fixated on many issues besides abortion. ShutDownDC, for example, is a protest group that has demonstrated over climate change, voting rights, the January 6 Capitol incident, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO). The group has also led protesters to the homes of Supreme Court justices.
Here’s a look at just a few of the activists who have participated in such protesting.
Sunsara Taylor
Activist Sunsara Taylor has long acted as one of the most public facing leaders of the Harlem-based Revolutionary Communist Party, known as Revcoms. Criticized as a “cult” that co-opts the fervency of leftist movements for its own goals, RevComs are dedicated to promoting the ideas of their communist leader, Bob Avakian.
Taylor is the co-founder of RiseUp4AbortionRights.org and co-initiator of Refuse Fascism (launched in response to former President Donald Trump’s 2016 victory), and she was a notable figure in the protests outside the United States Supreme Court this summer.
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, the most noticeable group that protested in the weeks before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, is a new abortion group that is a project of Refuse Fascism (an offshoot of the Revcoms).
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights organized pro-abortion Mother’s Day protests against churches and has been criticized by more established abortion groups for “swooping into town and leeching off of existing [Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] led grassroots efforts across the country.”
The group sought to create “a situation where those who run this society have to fear the loss of legitimacy if they go forward with revoking abortion rights.”
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights activists frequently urge protestors to get “into the streets” and “rise up for abortion rights.” A number of the organization’s activists have been arrested for their demonstrations. In February, Taylor tweeted that she was arrested for protesting outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
The day that Roe v. Wade was overturned, Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights activists quickly surrounded Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when she joined the swelling crowds outside the Supreme Court. Taylor pushed through the crowd to the congresswoman’s side and urged Ocasio-Cortez to join her in chanting that the decision was “illegitimate” through a megaphone.
When a reporter asked Ocasio-Cortez what Congress could do, Taylor spoke before Ocasio-Cortez did, saying, “Fill the streets,” to which the New York Democrat agreed, saying, “We have to fill the streets. Right now, elections are not enough.”
Nadine Seiler
Activist Nadine Seiler, “warrior goddess of the resistance,” has been heavily involved in Left-wing protest movements since at least 2017. Avidly anti-Trump and pro-Black Lives Matter, she devoted many hours of her life to safeguarding the Black Lives Matter artwork formerly posted on the chain link fence in Lafayette Park — reportedly sleeping beside the artwork for nearly three months.
She attended a slew of protests held at the homes of the Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh (she organized a May protest at Kavanaugh’s home, according to the Atlantic, telling the publication, “They want to create felons of women.”)
Seiler was one of a group of 75 protestors that the Supreme Court Marshal referenced in a letter to Maryland and Virginia officials, requesting that these officials enforce the law that prohibits such protesting.
“We are within the law,” Seiler told the Washington Post at the time. “They’re proving us right — that we need to be out there to maintain our First Amendment right, or else we wouldn’t have it.”
Sadie Kuhns
Sadie Kuhns is an activist also affiliated with the protest group “Our Rights DC.” The group has held dozens of protests outsides the homes of the Supreme Court justices and is allied with the activist groups ShutDownDC, Downright Impolite, and Extinction Rebellion.
https://twitter.com/sandiespoons/status/1558218650527703043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1558218650527703043%7Ctwgr%5E18f3044517d54ae08e12d517ef220034870ba292%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fheres-a-look-at-some-of-the-activists-who-protest-outside-the-supreme-court-justices-homesKuhns herself has been pictured protesting outside the homes of the justices. Several photographs depict her marching alongside Seiler, carrying a megaphone, flags, and chanting into a speaker.
Unlike some of the other protestors mentioned in this story, her protesting appears to be singularly focused on abortion and on the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, though she posts on social media about topics like defunding the police, canceling student loans, Trump, Drag Queen Story Hours and more.
Kuhns is also frequently pictured with activist “Miscreant Mouse” (it is not immediately clear what this social media user’s real name is). The two have protested together in front of the justices’ homes throughout August, and “Miscreant Mouse” has downplayed the concerns of critics who say the protests are endangering the justices.
Miscreant Mouse and Kuhns were protesting at Barrett’s home as recently as just over a week ago.
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