U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had to leave Morton’s Steakhouse in Washington, D.C. through the back door after protesters arrived to confront him.
On Wednesday, an organizing group calledShutdown DCposted toTwitterthat it had received a tip that Kavanaugh was out to dinner in the city and encouraged people to message them in order to receive the location and confront the justice. About one hour later, the group posted again and said they were told Kavanaugh “snuck out the back with his security detail.”
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“@mortons should be ashamed for welcoming a man who so clearly hates women,” the group wrote, in reference to Kavanaugh’s part in theSupreme Court’s June 24 overturning of the landmark 1973Roe v. Wadedecision, which enabled individual states to make its own laws regarding abortion procedures.
On Friday,Politicoconfirmed the group’s account of confronting Kavanaugh at Morton’s Washington, D.C. location. Protestors arrived in front of the restaurant and called its manager to tell the restaurant to kick Kavanaugh out before the Supreme Court justice ultimately left, according toPolitico.
“Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner,” the statement continued. “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.”
A source toldPoliticothat Kavanaugh did not actually see or hear the protestors in question during his dinner at Morton’s, though he did reportedly leave the restaurant before dessert.
The Supreme Court did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on the incident. The court had no statement to make on Kavanaugh’s behalf, according toPolitico’s reporting.
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“Best costume/setting wins,” the group wrote.
The incident happened just days after SCOTUS Marshal Gail Curley sent letters to officials in Maryland and Virginia over the weekendcalling on them to “enforce” state and local lawsthat “prohibit picketing outside of the homes of Supreme Court Justices,” according toNPR.
In a letter to Virginia Gov.Glenn Youngkin, Curley referred to one instance “earlier this week” where “at least 30 protesters gathered outside one Justice’s Fairfax County home chanting expletives, and dozens appeared outside another’s Fairfax County home chanting ‘no privacy for us, no peace for you,'“Bloombergreported.
source: people.com
