After the Supreme Court draft opinion on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked to Politico last week, many activists have taken to protesting outside some of the Supreme Court justices’ homes.
While the Biden administration has put out a statement calling on the protesters to remain peaceful, some have argued that the protests are illegal.
Former U.S. Attorney Jay Town said on WVNN’s “The Dale Jackson Show” Monday that the protests were against federal law.
“If they’re trying to intimidate them into a certain result or decision, then yes it is a violation of federal law,” Town argued, “and that’s not surprising.”
Town, who served in the Northern District of Alabama for the Trump Department of Justice, said there was a very good reason the law forbids putting that kind of pressure on judges.
“You got nine people,” he continued, “five of whom make decisions that impact the entire country, and you can’t have people camped out on your front lawns threatening you in order to craft those judicial opinions.”
The former U.S. Attorney put a lot of the blame on the media for stoking the “vitriol” coming from the activists.
“[T]he vitriol that is stoked by the media,” he said, “and really politicians on the left, it does encourage this sort of violent behavior and they got to find a way to tamp it down.”
Town said Biden had a responsibility to speak out against the illegal protests.
“President Biden has an obligation,” he said, “to say ‘look you don’t go to people’s homes in the middle of the night and yell threats at them, alright, there’s a time place and manner to protests and that ain’t it.”
He added that he didn’t buy the argument by some that this ruling would lead to bans on birth control or interracial marriage.
“In fact the Alito draft opinion is an opposite to exactly that,” he explained, “those are rights of individuals, but abortion is not because of the threat to another life or a living thing, an unborn human being, inherently different.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” Weekdays 9-11am on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
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