Calls to protect members of the judicial branch are growing after violence infiltrated protests over the weekend following the reversal of Roe v. Wade Friday.
An off-duty Providence, Rhode Island police officer who’s running for office as a Republican punched his Democratic opponent at an abortion protest. That officer is now suspended and dropping out of his race.
In Arizona, police used tear gas to disperse abortion rights protesters who breached the state capitol.
And in Iowa, a pickup truck driver allegedly struck an abortion rights demonstrator after an argument. The concern from federal law enforcement officials is that extremists on the far-left and the far-right are seizing this divisive moment to incite violence, and that there will be more incidents like the ones witnessed this weekend.
Meanwhile, Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle reacted over the weekend to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio praised the decision, “Today’s decision by the Supreme Court to allow states to regulate abortion was right constitutionally and morally,” while Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused the court’s conservative justices of lying during their confirmation hearings, stating “It sends a blaring signal to all future nominees that they can now lie to duly elected members of the United States Senate in order to secure Supreme Court confirmations.”
Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren looked ahead to the midterm elections, “We get two more senators on the Democratic side, two senators who are willing to protect access to abortion and get rid of the filibuster so that we can pass it… then we’ve got the votes, and we can protect every woman, no matter where she lives.”
Republican Senator Lindsay Graham disagreed, saying, “It’s not going to change the 2022 outcome.”
Source-ABC
