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    Gen. Milley warns West Point graduates of ‘increasing’ risk of global war, ‘robotic tanks’

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    Gen. Mark Milley told cadets graduating from U.S. Military Academy West Point Saturday to be prepared for increasing risk of global conflict and a host of new weapons technologies in their careers.

    “The world you are being commissioned into has the potential for a significant international conflict between great powers. And that potential is increasing, not decreasing,” Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the cadets at the 2022 commencement ceremony in West Point, New York.

    U.S. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, salutes during the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 2022 graduation ceremony at West Point, New York, May 21, 2022. (Reuters/David Dee Delgado)

    “And right now, at this very moment, a fundamental change is happening in the very character of war. We are facing right now two global powers, China and Russia, each with significant military capabilities, and both who fully intend to change the current rules based order,” Milley said.

    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is teaching the world that “aggression left unanswered only emboldens the aggressor,” Milley said.

    “Let us never forget the massacre that we have just witnessed in Bucha nor the slaughter that occurred in Mariupol. And the best way to honor their sacrifice is to support their fight for freedom and to stand against tyranny,” Milley said. 

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    The urban character of the war in Ukraine is something Milley sees as a characteristic of future battlefields, which will be “highly complex and almost certainly decisive in urban areas against elusive, ambiguous enemies that combine terrorism and warfare alongside conventional capabilities — all embedded within large civilian populations.”

    Weapons technology will also change dramatically in future decades, Milley said, and the shift will be as radical as the change from musket to the rifle, the rifle to the machine gun or from sailing to steam ships. And the technological edge is no longer automatically in America’s favor.

    “You’ll be fighting with robotic tanks and ships and airplanes,” Milley said. “We’ve witnessed a revolution in lethality and precision munitions. What was once the exclusive province of the United States military is now available to most nation states with the money will to acquire them.”

    U.S. Army General Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff speaks during the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 2022 graduation ceremony at West Point, New York, May 21, 2022.

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    Artificial intelligence is “resulting in that profound change, the most profound change ever in human history,” Milley said. “Whatever overmatch we the United States enjoyed militarily for the last 70 years is closing quickly. And the United States will be, in fact, we already are challenged in every domain of warfare in space and cyber, maritime air and, of course, land.”

    In the midst of all the risks and changes, Milley’s encouragement to future military leaders was to stay adaptive, resilient and most of all, be of impeccable moral character. 

    “We must, we have to, develop leaders who have incredible character under the intense pressure of ground combat, and there is no greater crucible than ground combat. Leaders who will make the right moral and ethical choice, along with the right tactical choice in the most emotionally charged environment you will ever face.”

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    Milley stressed the importance of the Constitution, and the oath cadets take to defend it. The message was so powerful that the Nazis feared it, America defeated Japan because of it, and the terrorists in al Qaida and ISIS hate it – “We swear an oath to an idea, and that idea is America,” Milley said. 

    “The idea is that every single one of you, it doesn’t matter if you’re male or female or gay or something in between,” he said. It doesn’t matter what race a person is, what religion or family a person belongs to.

    U.S. Military Academy graduating cadet Isaac Jefferson Dixon IV from Oceanside, CA is applauded by U.S. Army General Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, next to Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, during the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 2022 graduation ceremony at West Point, New York, May 21, 2022.  (Reuters/David Dee Delgado)

    “The idea that’s in that document, the idea for which you are willing to die, the idea that in this constitution that propelled our nation through some of our darkest days, all it says is that in this country, in these United States, under these colors of red, white and blue, no matter who you are, every single one of us, by the grace of the Almighty God in Heaven, is an American, and every single one of us is born free and equal. And you will rise, or you are going to fall based on your talents, your merit, your attributes, your hard work, your perseverance,” Milley said.

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    At one point, Milley said he was reminded of his own graduation 43 years ago, and quoted a Bob Dylan song. “We can feel the light breeze in the air. And right now, as we sit here on the plane at West Point, we can see the storm flags fluttering in the wind and we can hear in the distance the loud clap of thunder. And hard rain is about to fall.”

    NSBA concludes review of letter asking Biden’s DOJ to investigate parents under ‘domestic terrorism’ laws

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    The National School Board Association, which apologized last year for a letter asking the Justice Department to investigate protesting parents as “domestic terrorism,” has concluded a review of the debacle and promised that it will not happen again.

    “The letter directly contradicts our core commitments to parent engagement, local control, and nonpartisanship,” NSBA executive director & CEO John Heim said in a statement announcing the conclusions. “The sentiments shared in the letter do not represent the views or position of the NSBA. The NSBA does not seek or advocate for federal law enforcement intervention at local school board meetings.”

    The independent investigation placed the blame for the Sept. 29, 2021, letter squarely on Chip Slaven, who was then interim CEO and executive director of NSBA. Slaven “was behind the Letter, both in origin and substance,” the report released Friday states, and coordinated with a senior education advisor at the White House on the letter’s release.

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    Slaven wrote the letter in “response to the growing tensions at local school board meetings made manifest by the divide in public opinion in the then-ongoing debate about when and how public-school students should return to in-person instruction” following the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, the NSBA report said.

    Miguel Cardona speaks after President-Elect Joe Biden announced his nomination for Education Secretary at the Queen theatre on December 23, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Cardona, the Connecticut Education Commissioner, will face the urgent task of planning to reopen schools safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.  (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)

    The investigation reveals weeks of collaboration between NSBA staff, under Slaven’s direction, and members of the Biden administration — especially with Mary Wall, senior advisor to President Biden. Wall and Slaven exchanged emails and had a phone conversation to discuss the request. In one Sept. 21 email, Wall asked to see the letter in advance so she could discuss it with other White House offices and the Justice Department. 

    However, the investigation did not find any evidence that the Department of Education or the Biden administration specifically requested the letter. Though Slaven had communicated with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and shared examples of “inappropriate” parent activism at school boards, the investigators “did not find communications between the [Education] Department and the NSBA… specifically requesting the NSBA make an official request for aid or federal intervention.”

    After sending the letter to the White House requesting “federal law enforcement monitor and, potentially, intervene in local school board meetings across the country,” the highest levels of the Biden administration responded, with “positive and cooperative feedback.”

    “In less than a week, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memorandum to federal law enforcement officials directing federal agencies to act consistent with relief requested in the Letter,” the NSBA report states. 

    President Biden personally called one of the signers of the letter, Viola Garcia, who was then the president of the NSBA board of directors. The Biden administration tapped Garcia to a federal board overseeing student progress. 

    On Oct. 4, 2021, Garland released his memo initiating “a series of measures designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel.” The following day, Biden “called Dr. Garcia and thanked her for letting him know what was happening at the local level and for Dr. Garcia discussing the letter on television,” the report says.

    U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appears before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on October 21. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via Reuters)

    Garcia told the NSBA investigators that “she was reluctant to discuss the call because of the perception that the NSBA was ‘in cahoots essentially with the Biden Administration on this Letter.”

    On Oct. 7, Wall, who had several emails and a call with Slaven as he was drafting the letter, emailed Slaven again to express that “we have your back, and we’re exploring every avenue we can.”

    Garcia was announced as Biden’s pick for the federal board on Oct. 13, but the NSBA investigators did not find any connection between the letter and her appointment.

    The negative reaction to the letter and Garland’s memo was swift. Parent advocates condemned the comparison to domestic terrorists, and Republican politicians called on Garland to resign. 

    State school board associations also condemned the NSBA’s letter, and multiple states removed themselves from the national organization.

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    One of the letter’s requests involved using the controversial post-Sept. 11 bill the PATRIOT Act to prosecute parents accused of violence against school boards. Slaven clarified a draft of the letter so it was certain he was asking for the act to be used on threats he saw domestically. In his interview with the NSBA investigators, Slaven “expressed that he edited the letter to clarify that the request to utilize the PATRIOT Act was not with regard to al Qaeda or foreign adversaries, but with regard to the fact that ‘we were concerned over folks here in this country.’”

    “Notably, Mr. Slaven’s drafting, directing, approving, and sending of the Letter did not explicitly violate NSBA policies or procedures,” the report states. NSBA board members knew that staff routinely advocated with public officials without direction from the board or other governing committees. However, the letter represented a unique form of advocacy in terms of length and specific requests to the president.

    Most of the staff at NSBA, as well as the board of directors, were unaware of the letter while it was being drafted, That didn’t violate the processes of NSBA at the time, the report concluded, but does represent a risk factor for the organization, according to the current NSBA president.

    People gather to protest different issues including the board’s handling of a sexual assault that happened in a school bathroom in May, vaccine mandates and critical race theory during a Loudoun County School Board meeting in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S., October 26, 2021. Picture taken October 26, 2021. (Reuters/Leah Millis)

    “Sending the letter without full Board approval highlighted a concerning lack of internal process and accountability and harmed the mission of our organization,” Heim said. “While the events as recounted in the review are unfortunate, there are a number of important takeaways that will help our organization as we move forward.”

    The report did conclude that a draft of the letter was shared with the NSBA officers, but the full NSBA board of directors did not learn of it until after it had been sent to the White House.

    “We regret that we did not review the letter more closely at the time,” NSBA board president Frank S. Henderson, Jr. said. “We apologized in 2021 and acknowledged that the letter should have never been sent—the sentiments shared do not represent the Board’s views or the views of the NSBA. We are focused now on implementing processes to ensure this does not happen again.”

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    The NSBA said the review and changes to the organization will help it return to its core commitments of nonpartisanship, advocacy for local control of public education, and commitment to parental engagement in public education.

    Since the letter, NSBA says it has implemented new protocols for communication with Congress and the federal government, and has adopted belief statements stressing nonpartisanship and that “school boards must lead through community engagement, particularly with parents and guardians of the students they serve.”

    Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, said the investigation shows an inexcusable breach of trust by the Biden administration.

    “As a result of the NSBA’s internal investigation, the American people now know that Biden Administration officials did indeed work with NSBA on the since-retracted letter requesting federal intervention in school board issues,” Neily said. “It is inexcusable that a senior White House advisor would have the audacity to collaborate on a public request to use the Patriot Act against families; this is, quite literally, a betrayal of trust by the highest levels of government. While a number of questions remain – including the extent of Secretary Cardona’s involvement in this scandal – it is our hope that the individuals involved are held accountable for this betrayal of public trust.”

    Pro-choice activist group pushing protests at justices’ homes returns from ‘permanent’ TikTok ban

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    Days after experiencing a “permanent ban” on TikTok, pro-choice activist group Ruth Sent Us was back on the platform advocating for demonstrations in front of Supreme Court justices’ homes.

    “They simply restored the account with no notice or explanation, and we found out from followers who noticed and messaged the backup account,” a spokesperson for Ruth Sent Us told Fox News Digital in a Twitter message.

    The group has been the tip of the spear in organizing demonstrations following the leak of the draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which indicates the Supreme Court is poised to overturn 50 years of federal abortion protections established by Roe v. Wade. Ruth Sent Us has urged protests at Catholic and Evangelical churches and advocated for regular marches to the homes of some Supreme Court justices.

    On Saturday, the group posted from a “back up” TikTok account that it had been permanently banned for violating “community guidelines” but did not provide any explanation of what posts allegedly went against the platform’s guidelines. The post included a screenshot from TikTok stating that the account had been removed permanently, and the group’s page showed a message stating that the account did not exist. Several days later, the account was back online with no explanation.

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    “GREAT NEWS: our TikTok @ruthsent which was ‘permanently banned’ due to mass reporting is back up due to mass appeals!” Ruth Sent Us tweeted Monday. “There’s more of us than them. Take that, haters!”

    Woman dressed in a Handmaid’s Tale costume takes part in a pro-abortion rights protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., Oct. 4, 2021.  (REUTERS/Leah Millis)

    TikTok’s community guidelines state that the platform will remove any posts that violate community guidelines and says, “Individuals are notified of our decisions and can appeal them if they believe no violation has occurred.”

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    “We will temporarily or permanently ban accounts and/or users that are involved in severe or repeated on-platform violations; we may also consider actions on other platforms and offline behavior in these decisions,” the guidelines state.

    Among the broad spectrum of prohibited activities, TikTok says incitement to violence, bullying or sharing personal information like home addresses is not allowed on the platform. 

    TikTok did not respond to Fox News’ requests for comment.

    Ruth Sent Us told Fox News that many comments and individual posts had been taken down from TikTok. 

    “We have had a long series of comments and TikToks taken down due to ‘community guideline violation’ and EVERY single one reinstated upon appeal EXCEPT one featuring bloody pants,” the spokesperson told Fox News.

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    One video of demonstrators pouring apparent red paint on the crotches of their white pants still appears on Ruth Sent Us’ TikTok page, but now comes with a content warning.

    TikTok has suspended several conservative accounts. PragerU, a conservative educational organization founded by political commentator Dennis Prager, said last year that TikTok “has permanently banned PragerU TWICE from its platform for ‘multiple violations’ of its community guidelines.” Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton also garnered a permanent ban.

    Photo credit: AP

    Ruth Sent Us, named for former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, was criticized for “doxxing” after the group posted a map on May 5 that marked the location of the six justices appointed by Republican presidents.

    But Ruth Sent Us insists that it never doxxed anyone because the map used geolocation data for the pins, which identified the Virginia and Maryland homes of the six justices, but was not based on the street addresses for each justice. The “Extremist Justices” map was created by Vigil for Democracy, which is among a constellation of activist groups urging various protests and boycotts in response to the Supreme Court’s possible overturn of Roe.

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    The group has also urged disruptions of Catholic masses, and after multiple Washington, D.C.-area churches released statements of concern, Ruth Sent Us responded on Twitter: “Stuff your rosaries and your weaponized prayer. We will remain outraged after this weekend, so keep praying. We’ll be burning the Eucharist to show our disgust for the abuse Catholic Churches have condoned for centuries.”

    Ruth Sent Us demonstrations frequently feature women in red cloaks and white bonnets — a reference to Margaret Atwood’s novel and Hulu show “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which depicts a dystopian future in which abortion is illegal and women are treated as sex slaves and forced to marry and bear children against their will.

    In the weeks since the draft Dobbs decision leaked, numerous protests around the country have sprung up in an effort to push for abortion rights. This week, Ruth Sent Us released a weekly schedule for demonstrating outside the justices homes. On Wednesdays, the group meets to march in front of the homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. On Thursdays, they go to Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s house, and Fridays are for Justice Clarence Thomas.

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    Following the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, Saturday, Ruth Sent Us released a call to march to the home of Thomas, who is Black, to protest “white supremacy.”

    “Speaking of outrage, we must call out the upholders of white supremacy, even if it’s INTERNALIZED white supremacy, like [Candace Owens], [Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.], or Clarence Thomas,” Ruth Sent us said in a tweet. “The GOP is the party of white supremacy.”

    Will the Supreme Court release a Roe v. Wade decision this week?

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    The Supreme Court will issue a batch of opinions on an unknown number of cases Monday, but the highly-anticipated decision that could determine the fate of abortion protections is likely weeks away, according to judicial experts.

    The decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — which deals with abortion precedents set decades ago in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision — is highly complex and perhaps the most controversial action the court will take this year. Despite the country’s eagerness to have a resolution, the court may need more time to conclude its process.

    “Typically, more controversial cases are decided the last day of the term. So I do not expect Dobbs on Monday,” Brennan Center fellow and Stetson University law professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy told Fox News Digital in an email. The court typically concludes its work by mid-June or July, then begins a summer recess.

    A leaked draft opinion for Dobbs, written by Justice Samuel Alito in February and published by Politico May 3, indicates that the Supreme Court may have the votes to overturn Roe. The draft, which the court confirmed as genuine, does not reflect the final decision of the court. But that hasn’t stopped abortion-rights advocates and pro-life activists from speculating about the final results.

    Protesters gathered Saturday in dozens of cities across the country for “Bans Off Our Bodies” rallies, pushing for legal protection of abortions to stand. Groups have picketed in front of the homes of justices appointed under Republican presidents multiple times since the draft decision leaked.

    Demonstrators hold signs during a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington May 3, 2022, after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for a majority of the court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision later this year. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

    Yet the Supreme Court’s processes and timelines for considering cases are unlikely to change due to the immense public pressure for a decision.

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    “With about seven weeks until the end of the term and many cases still pending, it’s not unusual for the court to have opinion days one or more times per week this time of year,” Judicial Crisis Network’s Carrie Severino told Fox News Digital. “I hope to see the Dobbs decision released as soon as possible, but it’s hard to read much into the fact that Monday is an opinion day.”

    Doron Kalir, law professor at Cleveland State University’s Marshall College of Law, told Fox News Digital that he rates the possibility of the Supreme Court releasing a Dobbs decision Monday as a “low-to-zero chance.”

    The court, for one thing, has supposedly not circulated dissenting opinions to Alito’s February draft, according to further leaks on the process. The three liberal justices — Steven Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor — have not circulated dissenting opinions months after Alito’s draft circulated, Politico reported last week.

    The Roberts Court, April 23, 2021. Seated from left to right: justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and justices Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. Standing from left to right: justices Brett M. Kavanaugh, Elena Kagan, Neil M. Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett.   (Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

    “I would be shocked if Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan and — separately — Chief Justice [John] Roberts would remain silent on this draft and would not issue their own dissents,” Kalir said. Justices typically circulate draft opinions among each other for comment and revision, a process that takes an unknown amount of time.

    Alito’s opinion also appears very much like an unfinished draft, according to Kalir. 

    “It has many repetitions. It contains an especially harsh, dismissive and, at times, contemptuous tone towards the Justices who authored Roe and then those who affirmed it in Casey,” Kalir said. “If for no other reason than self-preservation, I assume that justices such as [Neil] Gorsuch and [Brett] Kavanaugh would like to temp those down — both reduce the number of times where the draft suggests Roe was ‘egregiously wrong’ and the overall tone mocking generations of great Supreme Court jurists.”

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    Demonstrators protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court May 4, 2022, in Washington.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    Kalir also thinks releasing the decision now would be a bad move politically “when the media frenzy is at its highest.”

    “First and foremost, the court would like to cool down some of the heat before it releases the — what I would assume to be — slightly-revised final opinion, with the two (or more) dissenting opinions,” Kalir said.

    The blistering draft opinion may be softened before the final version, according to Elliot Slotnick, professor emeritus at Ohio State University. 

    “An opinion like the one we’ve seen would tear the court apart, not to mention the country as well,” Slotnick told Fox News Digital. “Whether the reasoning and decision will stand is up in the air.

    “We don’t know what stage of the court’s decisional process [the draft opinion] represents. The draft doesn’t appear to represent a consensus of six justices, or perhaps even five, of the nine justices.

    Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts prior to President Biden’s State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol March 1, 2022, in Washington.  (Julia Nikhinson-Pool/Getty Images)

    “I’m certain the chief would like to be able to join in a majority opinion that was considerably ‘softer’ in tone. And, I think, the same might be said of (at least) Kavanaugh, perhaps others,” Slotnick added. “Of course, there’s a reasonable chance that I’m 100% wrong.”

    The Supreme Court doesn’t announce in advance what opinions will be released, but the court has dozens of cases on the docket that have been argued but not ruled upon. Though not all cases may receive the same length of opinion, some could have broad implications for constitutional rights. 

    The court has yet to release a decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, possibly the most significant gun-rights case before the high court in more than a decade. The case was argued in December and involves two people in New York who were denied concealed carry permits for self-defense. And Carson v. Makin challenges a Maine law that restricted state tuition for children attending religious schools.

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    Whatever the status of decisions on those cases, having an inside look at the process through leaks is a new phenomenon, one that many court watchers have called damaging to the independence of the judiciary.

    “I do think that what happened at the court is tremendously bad. … I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them,” Justice Clarence Thomas said at the Old Parkland Conference Friday.

    Small groups of protesters show up at Supreme Court justices’ homes to push for Roe v. Wade

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    Small groups of protesters arrived at the Northern Virginia homes of several Supreme Court justices Saturday evening, capping a day of rallies for Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that granted legal protection for most abortions.

    Since a leak of a draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health, some pro-choice activist groups have encouraged crowds to protest in front of the homes of justices and a few answered the call Saturday evening.

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    At the homes of Justices Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barret, Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts, small clutches of protesters held signs, chanted and marched through the suburban neighborhoods for a few minutes, then left. 

    Protesters picket near Justice Samuel Alito’s home (Fox News)

    “Alito, we can’t sleep and neither should you!” said a group of six protesters picketing near Alito’s house around 8 p.m. 

    If the overturn of Roe v. Wade goes through, “we’re gonna lose gay marriage, we’re going to lose a lot of laws that protect trans folks,” one protester told Fox News Digital. 

    A draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked earlier this month, indicating that the Supreme Court has the votes to undo Roe as well as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, another decision that reinforced judicial precedence for abortion access. 

    The draft opinion, which was confirmed as genuine by the court but does not represent the final decision, effectively would return abortion restrictions to states to decide. 

    Police stationed near the home of Justice Amy Coney Barrett (Fox News)

    “States’ rights… led us to the Civil War,” the protester said. “Is that where we want to go, back to the days before the Civil War? That’s what states’ rights are about.”

    Another group of six protesters marched around a quiet culdesac near Barrett’s home — where several Fairfax County Police officers were standing guard — chanted common protest slogans like “keep abortion safe and legal,” and “our bodies, our lives, our rights to decide.” The group left after about 12 minutes.

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    A larger cohort of about a dozen marched to Kavanaugh’s home, and later to nearby Roberts’ residence. “Our rights are not up for debate,” the group chanted, among other slogans, before departing after about 10 minutes.

    The quiet picketing followed more than a week of calls to protest in front of the homes of justices who were appointed under Republican presidents. 

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    A group of seven protesters showed up to Barrett’s house clad in the red garb of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a feminist dystopian novel and Hulu show that features women being systematically oppressed and raped by men. 

    Pro-choice protesters marched to the homes of Roberts and Kavanaugh May 7 and held a “Candlelight vigil for Roe v. Wade.” 

    The Saturday visits to the justices’ homes followed a day of protests nationwide, calling for protections for Roe v Wade. 

    Over 40 Republicans this week pushed a resolution condemning protests in front of the justices’ houses, pointing to federal law that makes it illegal to “picket or parade” outside a courthouse or a judge’s residence “with the intent of influencing any judge… in the discharge of his duty.”

    (Fox News)

    Republicans called for the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Attorney General Merrick Garland to enforce that law all week. Garland and the DOJ were initially silent on the matter but addressed the protests in a statement Wednesday. 

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    “Attorney General Garland continues to be briefed on security matters related to the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Justices,” Justice Department spokesperson Anthony Coley said.

    “The Attorney General directed the U.S. Marshals Service to help ensure the Justices’ safety by providing additional support to the Marshal of the Supreme Court and Supreme Court Police,” the statement added.

     Protesters this week also picketed in front of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home this week.

    Pro-choice activist group Ruth Sent Us says TikTok account was ‘permanently banned’

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    The far-left abortion activist group Ruth Sent Us says it’s main TikTok account, which at one point had more than 20,000 followers, had been “permanently banned” from the platform.

    The TikTok page belonging to the group, which has led demonstrations and protests at churches and Supreme Court justices’ homes, is no longer active, but a similar account referred to as a “backup” under the handle “RuthSentU” announced the ban of the main page.

    “Your account permanently banned due to multiple violations of our Community Guidelines,” a screenshot posted Saturday by the “backup” account of Ruth Sent Us TikTok account states.

    It’s unclear what violations may have led to the ban. TikTok did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

    Demonstrators in support of reproductive rights protest outside of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, U.S., May 7, 2022.  (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)

    Ruth Sent Us used its TikTok account, as well as its presence on Twitter, to promote protests at conservative justices’ homes earlier this week as part of an ongoing left-wing pressure campaign aimed at influencing the Supreme Court to uphold Roe v. Wade, after a leaked draft opinion suggested the court is on the verge of overturning its verdict in the 1973 case. 

    Ruth Sent Us did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

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    The group has taken responsibility for organizing multiple demonstrations, frequently featuring women dressed in red capes with white hats as a reference to Margaret Atwood’s feminist dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

    In a video posted to the TikTok account before it was deleted, activists in the red capes were seen walking into what appeared to be the front of a Catholic church during Mass.

    “For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has been an institution for the enslavement of women,” one of the protesters says in the video, calling for protests between May 8 and May 14.

    The group last week threatened that it would be “burning the Eucharist,” to show “disgust for the abuse Catholic Churches have condoned for centuries.”

    “Stuff your rosaries and your weaponized prayer,” the group said Twitter. “We will remain outraged after this weekend, so keep praying. We’ll be burning the Eucharist to show our disgust for the abuse Catholic Churches have condoned for centuries.”

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    Fox News Digital reported Monday that Sam Spiegel, the registrant of the Ruth Sent Us website and a far-left activist, previously expressed support for Rep. Maxine Waters’, D-Calif., controversial 2018 call to harass Trump administration officials in public, saying at the time that even supporters of his administration deserve to be “ambushed.” 

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    The group announced plans to protest in front of the homes of all six GOP-appointed justices Saturday evening, following rallies to protect Roe v. Wade in dozens of cities nationwide.

    Fox News’ Peter Hasson contributed to this report.

    Will pro-abortion protests at Catholic churches effect the upcoming midterm elections for Democrats?

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    Several pro-choice protests and vandalism at Catholic churches across the nation following a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court which showed that federal protections for abortion may soon be in jeopardy. But whether such demonstrations will have an impact on Catholic voters is uncertain.

    Plans for the Mother’s Day protests — orchestrated primarily through social media sites like Twitter, TikTok and Reddit — appear to target the religion of some Supreme Court justices after the draft high court draft opinion striking down its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which grants federal protections for abortion, was leaked to the public last week.

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    Abortion-rights activists gather outside of a Catholic church in downtown Manhattan to voice their support for a woman’s right to choose on May 07, 2022 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

    As previously reported, a group known as “Ruth Sent Us,” which has a TikTok account with more than 20,000 followers, initially posted a video of a group of women wearing costumes inspired by Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaids Tale” walking into what appears to be the front of a Catholic Church during Mass. 

    Other activist groups — including “Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights,” “Pro Choice with Heart,” “Strike for Choice” and others — are also calling for protests between May 8 and May 15. In addition, reports of churches being vandalized surfaced last week after the release of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion.

    Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, a non-profit conservative political advocacy group, told Fox News Digital over the weekend that he believes Democrats are in hot water amid the ongoing church protests as midterm elections near.

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    “Democrats are in a difficult position,” Burch said. “Their base is clamoring for a full-throated, restriction free, abortion rights policy, yet the majority of voters aren’t with them. I think this is another example of Democrats misreading the public and overreaching. They’ve done it on parental rights, on schools, curriculum, race, and now abortion.”

    “The leaked opinion is actually a compromise on abortion,” Burch said. “It merely returns the issue to the states to work out how to best care for unborn children and their mothers. It imposes nothing. As far as Catholics are concerned, Catholics are very practical voters, which is why many of them swing both of the political parties. I think Democrats need some Catholics in order to win many key races and to the extent that Democrats align themselves with the extreme left, I think they’re playing with fire.”

    Burch, discussing the destruction of Catholic churches over the years, said he believes there will be “universal condemnation among Catholics” regarding the recent vandalism. “Both Democrats and Republicans do not want to see their houses of worship defaced or destroyed or their shrines and symbols destroyed.”

    Vandalism on the Sacred Heart of Mary Church.  (Mark Haas)

    Burch also took aim at the Biden administration’s response to recent protests targeting the Catholics and their faith, saying it is “shameful that he has yet to say anything against these open threats.”

    “I think this president has made clear that he prioritizes his political success over his faith,” Burch said. “He’s done that on policy, and now he’s doing it on a very pressing issue, a significant issue, when it comes to threats on the property of Catholic churches.”

    Ultimately, Burch said he believes that Biden “won’t have a choice” in speaking out against the protests should they get out of hand. Burch said that Catholic voters, and voters overall, are “looking for leadership.” Burch said Americans long for “political leaders who can bring the country together, that will respect the faith, not just the property, but the faith and belief of millions of Americans.”

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    “Like it or not, tens of millions of Americans believe that we have an obligation to do whatever we can to protect unborn children in our democracy,” he said.

    On the contrary, John White, a professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital that he believes the current protests from pro-choice activists at Catholic churches across America do little to influence public opinion and that it is still too early to definitively say how the actions from some activists will influence Catholic voters.

    “I’m not sure that they move public opinion all that much,” White said. “You’re just seeing the activists on both sides here. I think the issue is a complicated one, public opinion wise, and I think that it’s more nuance than people believe.”

    Pro-life activists confront a gathering of pro-abortion demonstrators outside of a Catholic church in downtown Manhattan on May 07, 2022 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    Pointing to a recent study from the Pew Research Center regarding public opinion of abortion, White said the public’s stance on the issue of abortion has been “very stable over the decades.”

    “Americans generally support abortion in the first trimester, they don’t support it as a form of birth control,” he said. “They do support it in terms of rape, incest, life of the mother, they don’t support abortion in the second and third trimesters and all of that is definitely been very, very stable over the years, frankly. So, I don’t think that the ending of Roe changes that aspect of public opinion.”

    Noting that he believes the “reasoning is important,” White said he believes a reversal of Roe v. Wade, should a dissent cite that abortion is not a right enumerated in the constitution, opens up a “kind of pandora’s box on privacy rights, birth control, gay marriage, and so forth.”

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    “With respect to Catholics… if you look at church-going Catholics — that is once a week or more than that — they are definitely on the pro-life side,” White said. “The decision may motivate them more, but they were already with the Republicans, generally, anyway. It’s not necessarily religious identity that people carry first and foremost into the voting booth like they did, say in 1960. What the real divide is now is between those who attend church regularly and those that don’t.… That’s the real difference and that is very much there among Catholics as well.”

    Anti-abortion activists and church members are confronted by a pro-choice activist outside of a Catholic church in downtown Manhattan to voice their support for a woman’s right to choose on May 07, 2022 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

    White said he believes the protests that are taking place will not move Catholics that do not attend church regularly to side with Republicans. “It may, in fact, move them a little bit more to the Democrats.”

    “We still don’t know yet, it’s early,” White said of the effect on Catholic voters. “We don’t have the final opinion, but you have to think what is going to be the most on the minds of voters come November. Is it gonna be inflation, the economy or is it gonna be this issue? I still think it’s inflation and the economy, generally.”

    Reiterating that he does not believe the “protests move public opinion one way or the other,” White said the protests “demonstrate a certain intensity on both sides.”

    In a statement to Fox News Digital, Dr. Grazie Christie, a senior fellow for The Catholic Association, said that “the anti-child, anti-mother abortion brigades have chosen Mother’s Day — of all days — to invade our sacred churches.”

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    “But then, we already know not even life is sacred to them,” she said. “They are wasting their time. People of faith will not be intimidated by their harassment and threats. And mothers know how to deal with childish temper tantrums.”

    Anti-abortion activists pray while pro-choice activists gather outside of a Catholic church in downtown Manhattan to voice their support for a woman’s right to choose on May 07, 2022 in New York City. The protests at the Basilica of St. Patricks Old Cathedral, which have been occurring weekly and where a small number of anti-abortion activists worship, have been given added urgency by the recent leaked Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade.  (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

    A Guttmacher Institute study found that of the women who had abortions in 2014, 62% reported a religious affiliation — 24% were Catholic, 17% were mainline Protestant, 13% were evangelical Protestant and 8% identified with some other religion.

    Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed last week that Alito’s draft opinion in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was genuine – although the draft dates back to February, and it does not represent the current or final opinion of the court.

    Fox News’ Audrey Conklin contributed to this article.

    Flint, Michigan, city council gets heated after ‘ghetto’ comment

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    A meeting of the Flint, Michigan, city council descended into chaos after a White council woman referred to the actions of the chairwoman, who is Black, as “ghetto” during a six-hour meeting.

    The councilwoman who made the comment, Eva Worthing, later apologized for the comment as a “knee-jerk reaction” to what she saw as unfair treatment, but the arguments and racial statements show a history of heated rhetoric within the Flint city council’s recent history.

    The dispute started over whether a council member could amend a resolution related to public hearings, which some council members contended was out of order with the agenda. Council member Eva Worthing contended that “a motion is always in order.”

    Chairwoman Jerri Winfrey-Carter responded that she wasn’t sure why the amendment was being offered in the first place. “Why are we amending this motion?”

    “Because we can,” Worthing commented.

    “You know what, don’t get funny up in here, because I’ll turn this out,” Winfrey-Carter responded.

    In a recording of the council meeting, Worthing is heard making a comment that is difficult to hear through the microphone, but nearby Council member Tonya Burns responded: “Really? That’s a racist term. Don’t say ‘ghetto.'”

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    At the meeting, several council members took offense at the statement from Worthing.

    “Point of information, madam chair. I think it is a personal attack to say ‘getting ghetto,” Burns said.

    Eva Worthing (Eva Worthing Flint City Council 9th Ward)

    The meeting detoured after Winfrey-Carter issued a warning to Worthing, who then motioned to appeal the issuance — which was seconded by another Black council member.

    Winfrey-Carter attempted to put the meeting back on track. “I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m not here to play. I am here to be fair. I’m want to hear from all of my colleagues…. Everybody is going to have a chance to speak.” She condemned “all of the ad libs from Councilwoman Worthing, it’s unnecessary. And to have said what she said was unnecessary… she was out of order, point blank,”

    “First of all, we shouldn’t even be having this discussion,” Worthing responded. The motion should have been seconded, discussed and voted on. “You chose to threaten me in some way, so I thought that was inappropriate, Ms. Winfrey-Carter, so if you had not said there would have been no reaction. When you’re a chair, you should be professional and treat everyone the same.” Worthing accused the chair of “listening to one colleague,” and of running a “one-person meeting.”

    Councilman Eric Mays jumped in with a point of order. The term ghetto, Mays said, “to me, it’s got some racial overtones. You can laugh, Ms. Worthing, but I can come up with some sure names for your neighborhood.”

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    Worthing responded that Mays himself had called her a “nasty woman” and made references to her race as well. Mays continued and explained

    “We take offense to you calling us ghetto. Now I’m going to assure you, I’m going to look up some words and call you something. I don’t want to call you trailer-nothing, but I will,” Mays said.

    “My reputation is, when you go low once, I go low two, three times,” Mays said. “And the sooner that council people learn this… I keep score.” He added that “character matters whether you’re Black, White, orange, purple, green, Democrat, Republican,” Mays said.

    The heated discussion continued, with other council members speaking against Worthing’s use of the word ghetto.

    “I am offended, and appalled, when you speak to ‘ghetto’ and it’s seven Black people here, that’s a problem,” Burns said. She later said: “We have to be careful, because there is no superiority in any race, we are all equal here.” She also brought up Worthing’s profession as a school teacher: “You teach children, and you’re comfortable using ‘ghetto’?”

    Worthing responded that Burns’ comment amounted to a personal attack, to which Winfrey-Carter said “you’ve been giving personal attacks all evening, so let her finish with her statement.”

    “I am going to excuse myself, madam chair, this is not fair,” Worthing said.

    Eva Worthing Flint City Council 9th Ward (Eva Worthing Flint City Council 9th Ward)

    After more heated exchanges, during which Worthing apparently left, Winfrey-Carter restored order. “Stop. This is enough,” she said, and expressed her desire to continue the meeting.

    More speeches commenced, as well as accusations of mistreatment and racial bias. With Worthing absent, her appeal was dismissed and she received the warning. The meeting lasted for a total of six hours.

    Worthing later issued a statement saying she was sorry for her comment. “It was a knee-jerk reaction. I said, ‘That’s ghetto’ under my breath,” Worthing said Friday, MLive reported. 

    In a statement to Fox News, Worthing said though she has apologized, she has never been apologized to for “the trauma that not only I but the city staff have been through the last 4.5 year plus.”

    “I have been through so much abuse on this council. I have never been apologized to,” Worthing said, adding that Carter “has not called me to apologize for saying ‘I’ll go all out on you.’” Worthing accused Burns of calling her a racist, a liar, and a “Councilwoman Karen which I feel is racist towards me,” she said.

    “Why is this behavior allowed? It is about race. All three white women on this new council have had their race pointed out by Eric Mays. There was no story and there was no apology,” Worthing said.

    The racial accusations and heated rhetoric are far from new for the city council. When she was re-elected after running unopposed in November 2021, Worthing said she was disappointed by the “negativity, racism and spitefulness in the current council.” 

    “As leaders, we should be modeling the behavior that we want to see in our city. And unfortunately, that has yet to happen in the four years that I have been on council,” she said.

    Last month, the council voted 6-0 (with some members absent or abstaining) after a 10 hour meeting to remove Mays as president. “I see a different treatment getting ready to happen … Race might be a factor,” Mays said prior to the vote, MLive reported.

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    At the next council meeting two weeks later, Mays was removed in handcuffs after being ruled out of order twice during the April 26 meeting. He insisted that his removal as president had been improper, and compared himself at one point to George Floyd, who was killed during an arrest by an Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for nearly 8 minutes. 

    “You got your knee on my neck politically …,” Mays told the acting Chairwoman Allie Herkenroder, MLive reported. “I can’t hardly breathe.”

    Burns, in that meeting, said that Mays was wasting everyone’s time. “It has nothing to do with color right now but (everything) to do with your behavior,” Burns said.

    Council members Burns, Winfrey-Carter and Burns did not respond to requests for comment.

    Florida Dem’s ’embarrassing’ Zoom call during House committee meeting may violate ethics rules, watchdog says

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    EXCLUSIVE: Florida Democratic Rep. Val Demings touted her Senate candidacy in a virtual event while remotely attending a congressional hearing, and a conservative watchdog group says that may violate House ethics rules.

    Demings remotely attended a House Judiciary Committee meeting on April 5, while at the same time as the proceedings, she joined a over Zoom to promote her campaign for U.S. Senate, according to a complaint from the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust obtained by Fox News Digital.

    “Not only was this incident an embarrassing moment for [Demings], and for the House, but a serious rules violation appears to be present as well,” the complaint sent to the Office of Congressional Ethics states.

    Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) (Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS)

    During the committee hearing on the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, Demings made use of the House’s rules allowing representatives to attend proceeding remotely in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Demings voted on amendments, but a campaign video shows her apologizing for having to listen in to the Judiciary Committee so she could hear when it was her turn to respond to the roll call.

    “Of course I’ve been looking so forward to being with the Duval Caucus, and here I am stuck in a markup in Judiciary so I apologize for the background noise, but of course I am also listening to the hearing there, so I know when it is time for me to vote,” Demings says in a recording, obtained by FACT.

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    Demings is running to unseat Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and on April 5 joined the Duval County Democratic Black Caucus to court Jacksonville, Florida, democrats — a coalition she will need to win in the general election.

    Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    “You all know my opponent in this race, someone who votes against things that are good for Florida,” Demings said of Rubio. “Someone that really doesn’t… Excuse me, I am waiting for my name to be called. Someone who does not believe in climate change, he says winter, spring, summer, and fall. I’m running against someone who likes to pick winners and losers based on their ability to pay to play. Hold on just a second. No, no. Okay, I’m sorry, thank you all so much. Um, and also, my opponent doesn’t like showing up for work.”

    In a video of the committee meeting, Demings can be heard voting remotely on several amendments.

    Demings was far from the only committee member tuning in remotely. In fact, Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., had to remind the representative multiple times to “mute themselves unless they’re voting.”

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    The House has general rules stating that members are to “conduct themselves at all times in a manner that reflects creditably on the House,” and FACT alleges that Demings’ participation in a political event while attending an official committee proceeding violated rules requiring separation between campaign and congressional business.

    “Demings’ dual attendance at the events show she chose to virtually attend the committee hearing not for reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic, but to speak at a campaign event—clearly contrary to the authorized purpose for the rule set forth in House Resolution 965,” which set the parameters for conducting business in the House remotely due to the COVID-19 emergency.

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    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi extended the proxy voting rules, along with allowance for remote attendance at congressional hearings, in March. Sergeant at Arms William Walker, in consultation with the U.S. Attending Physician Dr. Brian Monahan, wrote that the  “public health emergency due to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 remains in effect.” 

    Demings, the former police chief of Orlando, is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, and will likely face Rubio in the November midterm elections.

    Demings’ office did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

    White House encourages ‘peaceful protests,’ won’t tell abortion activists to avoid SCOTUS justices’ homes

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    The White House on Thursday declined to encourage abortion activists to avoid protesting at the private residences of Supreme Court justices as outrage over a leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade grows.

    White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said President Biden understands and shares the outrage over the news that the Supreme Court may vote to undo Roe, which essentially legalized abortion nationwide.

    “The president, for all those women, men, others who feel outraged, who feel scared, who feel concerned, he hears them, he shares that concern and that horror that he saw in that draft opinion,” Psaki said. 

    Biden’s message directly to anyone feeling outraged “is participating in peaceful protest,” Psaki said. “Ensure it’s peaceful. Have your voice heard peacefully. We should not be resorting to violence in any way, shape or form.”

    Workers assemble non-scalable fences around the Supreme Court Building amid ongoing abortion-rights demonstrations on May 4, 2022 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

    Several heated protests have occurred in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., following the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would undo Roe, prompting police to put up barriers around the building.

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    Fox News’ Peter Doocy on Thursday brought up Biden’s statements earlier this week calling the “MAGA crowd” the “most extreme political organization” in recent history. “Do you think the progressive activists that are now planning protests outside some of the justices’ houses are extreme?” Doocy asked Psaki.

    “Peaceful protest, no. Peaceful protest is not extreme,” Psaki said. “We certainly encourage people to keep it peaceful and not resort to any level of violence.”

    Doocy pressed whether Biden viewed the posting of home addresses of justices, some of whom have young children, as a peaceful expression of protest.

    “The president’s view is that there’s a lot of passion, a lot of fear, a lot of sadness, from many, many people across this country about what they saw in that leaked document,” Psaki said.

    Demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    A pro-abortion group reportedly plans to protest at the Maryland and Virginia homes of some of the Supreme Court justices. In response to Doocy’s question about whether the president cared about protests near justices’ homes, Psaki declined to discourage any residential protests.

    “I don’t have an official U.S. government position on where people protest,” Psaki said. “We want it of course to be peaceful, and certainly the president would want to people’s privacy to be respected. But I think we shouldn’t lose the point here. The reason people are protesting is because women across the country are worried about their fundamental rights that have been law for 50 years, their rights to make choices about their own bodies and their own health care, are at risk. That’s why people are protesting — they’re unhappy, they’re scared.”

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    Psaki again declined to state whether Biden supported any limits on abortion, even up until the moment of birth. 

    President Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    An activist organization called “Ruth Sent Us” — a reference to former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg — published the apparent home addresses of Justices Amy Coney Barrett, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, and encouraged peaceful demonstrations. 

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    “Our 6-3 extremist Supreme Court routinely issues rulings that hurt women, racial minorities, LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights,” the group’s website read. “We must rise up to force accountability using a diversity of tactics.”

    The leaked draft of the opinion on Dobbs vs Jackson Whole Women’s Health was published by Politico Monday evening, and indicates that a majority of the court may vote to undo 50 years of precedent in Roe. However, the draft is not the final opinion, which is expected in late June or July, before the current Supreme Court term ends.

    Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.