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Conservatives are furious after a leftwing group has offered bounties to Twitter users to give them the locations of conservative Supreme Court Justices who voted to end Roe V Wade.
ShutDownDC said it will pay a bounty of $50 to anyone who gives them a “confirmed sighting” and another $200 if the justices are still in that location half an hour later.
“DC Service Industry Workers… If you see Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett or Roberts DM us with the details! We’ll venmo you $50 for a confirmed sighting and $200 if they’re still there 30 mins after your message,” the group said on Twitter.
DC Service Industry Workers… If you see Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Coney Barrett or Roberts DM us with the details!
We'll venmo you $50 for a confirmed sighting and $200 if they're still there 30 mins after your message. https://t.co/xXWZ5JZiE7
— ShutDownDC (@ShutDown_DC) July 8, 2022
According to POLITICO on Thursday, the conservative jurist was forced to leave a swanky DC-area steakhouse through a rear exit because the establishment was inundated with demonstrators.
Kavanaugh was eating at Morton’s in downtown Washington, D.C., when a mob descended upon the establishment and demanded that the manager kick him out.
The justice was able to finish his meal but then he was ushered out of the back in order to avoid the protestors.
NEW: Justice Brett Kavanaugh had to exit through the rear of Morton's on Wednesday night after DC protestors showed up out front. A Morton's rep told me: "Politics … should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner." https://t.co/wlA4J2nxYW pic.twitter.com/jpsfhB3JVo
— Daniel Lippman (@dlippman) July 8, 2022
“We hear Kavanaugh snuck out the back with his security detail,” tweeted ShutdownDC. “Morton’s should be ashamed for welcoming a man who so clearly hates women.”
We hear Kavanaugh snuck out the back with his security detail. @mortons should be ashamed for welcoming a man who so clearly hates women.
— ShutDownDC (@ShutDown_DC) July 7, 2022
According to POLITICO, the protest only served to anger the restaurant.
“While the court had no official comment on Kavanaugh’s behalf and a person familiar with the situation said he did not hear or see the protesters and ate a full meal but left before dessert, Morton’s was outraged about the incident,” the report continued.
A steakhouse rep sent POLITICO’s report a statement: “Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protestors while eating dinner at our Morton’s restaurant. Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner. There is a time and place for everything. Disturbing the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and void of decency.”
The incident at Morton’s comes after Kavanaugh was targeted for assassination last month following a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
PBS noted:
Kavanaugh’s would-be attacker is Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California, authorities said in charging him with the attempted murder of a justice. Clad in black, he arrived by taxi outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home around 1 a.m. Wednesday.
He spotted two U.S. Marshals who were guarding the house and walked in the other direction, calling 911 to say he was having suicidal thoughts and also planned to kill Kavanaugh, according to court documents. Roske said he found the justice’s address on the internet.
When police searched a backpack and suitcase he was carrying, they said they found a Glock 17 pistol, ammunition, a knife, zip ties, duct tape and other items Roske said he was going to use to break into the house. He said he bought the gun to kill Kavanaugh.
“We’re seeing these threats increase in number and intensity. That’s a sign. That’s a signal,” said U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, whose son was killed nearly two years ago in an attack that also wounded her husband.
Protesters have also shown up outside the homes of Kavanaugh as well as fellow conservative Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett.
The threats and intimidation tactics — protests outside of justices’ homes for that purpose are actually against federal law but the Biden Justice Department has yet to act — have angered Republicans.
“I think, unfortunately for the left, the law is viewed as optional,” Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas told a reporter in June following the assassination attempt. “If they disagree with the law, they refuse to enforce it. Whether it is the federal criminal law that protects these children or whether it is the federal criminal law that protects Supreme Court Justices.”
“We saw just yesterday a man arrested for attempted murder of a Supreme Court Justice. That crime was actively encouraged by elected Democrats,” Cruz added. “Chuck Schumer went to the steps of the Supreme Court and threatened the Justices
