‘Way too late’: Psaki makes U-turn, says White House supports judges and urges non-threatening protests

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In a statement more likely meant to distance President Joe Biden from any culpability rather than meant as an attempt to “unring the bell,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki took an about-face Monday regarding protests against Supreme Court justices after many argued “in declining to condemn it” the “Administration condoned it.”

Following the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion regarding Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization that could see Roe v. Wade be overturned before the summer, protests and calls for action rang out from pro-abortion activists. Some went as far as to dox the home addresses of conservative members of the court in an effort to pressure a change in the ruling before its official release.

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy questioned Psaki on this Friday explaining, “These activists posted a map with the home addresses of the Supreme Court justices. Is that the kind of thing this president wants to help your side make their point?”

“Look, I think 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. We obviously want people’s privacy to be respected,” Psaki said. “We want people to protest peacefully if they want to – to protest. That is certainly what the president’s view would be.”

“I don’t have an official U.S. government position on where people protest,” she concluded at the time.

However, Psaki was singing a different tune Monday when she released a statement on Twitter detailing that the president “strongly believes in the Constitutional right to protest. But that should never include violence, threats, or vandalism. Judges perform an incredibly important function in our society, and they must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety.”

“This is a good statement,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw wrote in response, “but it’s way too late. The Press Secretary had the opportunity to condemn this abhorrent behavior before it started last week — and in declining to condemn it, she & the Biden Administration condoned it. Shameful.”

On that point, Pushaw is absolutely correct and the corporate media fell in line over the weekend touting the party line with their own veiled acts of commission. CNN’s Laura Jarrett for example said, “I think for a lot of people a conversation about civility feels like it misses the mark when constitutional rights that you believe that you had for over 50 years are about to be overturned.”

“The justices have security,” Jarrett insisted as though that justified any threats imposed on them or their family members. “So far,” she qualified, “all of the protests have seemed overwhelmingly non-violent. There are plenty of protests that happen every single day in this country, around the country, at abortion clinics, blocking women from getting into clinics and we don’t cover those as if there’s four-alarm fires.”

While those protests did remain non-violent, there is no telling what may come as there are already plans in the works for marches against Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas following the protests at the homes of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts. Justice Samuel Alito had to relocate to an unspecified location out of concern for safety.

As Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pointed out Sunday, “It is disgraceful, and Joe Biden used to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Joe Biden knows it’s disgraceful, he’s literally threatening the lives of these justices by the mob they’re unleashing, it’s the same thing we saw with Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots where the left embraced them, and now they’re embracing mob violence to get their partisan outcome.”

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30 thoughts on “‘Way too late’: Psaki makes U-turn, says White House supports judges and urges non-threatening protests

  1. This entire administration is SHAMEFUL! BIDEN (look at his son Hunter…he has failed even at being a dad), KAMALA (she is where she now sits because of her inappropriate relationship with Willie Brown), SCHIFF (nothing but beady-eyed lies out of his pie-hole),
    SCHUMER (little man with a Napoleon complex who is lost in his own little world), PELOSI (whose name alone says it all; gimme, gimme Pelosi; do as I say, not as I do), PSAKI (where in the world did they dig up this lying mouth-piece?), and I don’t have the time to go on, with people like Lightfoot, fake-Indian Warren, and all the rest of them. And how could I not comment on FAT-B0Y NADLER (a mystery how Brooklyn could claim him).

    And this, AMERICA, is the caliber of individuals we are dealing with currently running our once great country! Individuals who (by their verbiage or lack of it) have supported such organizational behaviors including mob scenes from such outfits as ANTIFA, Black Lives Matter, Defund the Police, the list goes on and on, but now encouraging protests against the very heads of our Judiciary Branch.

    This is not simply shameful; this in not simply disgraceful; this borders on CRIMINAL. Where are our Law Enforcers? Far past time to CLEAN HOUSE, once and for all.

    BIDEN, HARRIS, PSAKI, you pretenders absolutely repulse me! You lie, lie, & lie again & again. I now repent for the times in the past I voted Democratic. (I have always been proud of calling myself an “Independent”, but never again!!)

    AMERICA, let’s start CLEANING & CLEANSING our BELOVED USA. Hopefully it’s not too late to once again be PROUD of our COUNTRY. (And, yes, I served!)

  2. So sad, soon we won’t have the Bride of Chuckie to kick around anymore. She’ll be lost forever into some obscure dimension where she’ll never be heard or seen again. I think it’s called the CNN Dimension.

  3. What would the media scream if protestors on the opposite side began protesting in front of Roberts’ home or that of Sotomayor, etc.?

  4. She is a pathological liar. She belongs over at MSNBC and when they tire of her lies, there’s always CNN that catches the last terds in the bowl before they go down.

  5. If Biden meant it, he would send Secret Service to protect them and disperse them just like he does for crackhead Hunter.

    BPR: Still sucks. We need notifications or when we have someone reply to our comments like in the old days. Getting ready to jump ship and find a platform without censorship and with notifications.

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  6. Peaceful or not that isn’t the point. They are in violation of federal law. What’s next, protesting in front of a judge, jury, and prosecutor’s home to get them to rule a certain way in a criminal case?

    They call us terrorists

  7. Title 18 Section 1508. US Code
    Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
    Nothing in this section shall interfere with or prevent the exercise by any court of the United States of its power to punish for contempt.

    LOCK THEM ALL UP JUST AS THEY HAVE FOR THE J6 PATRIOTS

  8. The lying psak of Psalki is so determined to tint the ether rose, that she doesn’t even pay attention to what she says. Notice the more frequent tongue flicking?

  9. Imagine if the “peaceful protestors” screaming about My Body My Choice were republicans gathered outside the home of Fauci, the CDC director or doctors pushing vaccines. The narrative would be “unAmerican, radical, Right wing extremists”, “Racist, white nationalists, Insurrectionists…..” . The media would be condemning the protests and the DC crowd of nutcases would flock to cameras to condemn the evil republicans. Rules for thee not for me once again.

  10. Psaki like Impotus Joe couldn’t say anything until their puppet masters gave them the script to peddle.

  11. How LONG can Psaki continue to LIE to AMERICA? The “best” is that her replacement lives with a CNN worker. GIVE ME A BREAK! It’s “O.K.”, for Antifa to riot, loot & burn. It’s “O.K.” for pro abortionists to TRESPASS in Churches, behead religious statues, paint FILTH on Church doors & synagogs & go into residential neighborhoods & blow whistles, shout OUTRAGEOUS insults & THREATEN the entire neighborhood. THIS IS “O.K.”? & condoned by the White House? “catholic” Pelosi, Biden, & Durbin say ZILCH, which means that it’ all right with them. Well, it’s NOT all right with A LOT of Americans who dare to “think” otherwise. WHAT “ELSE” can “they” do to “US”, before they are FINALLY OUT of WASHINGTON? I’m SURE that this SUMMER will be on FIRE because of these RADICALS .

    1. It’s okay because it’s DEMOCRATS doing it. Everything is permissible if you are a Democrat. Comey, Clinton, Clapper, Biden, all break laws and nothing happens because they and their supporters who commit crimes are all democrats.

    2. She’ll continue to lie to America until she finally moves to her new job at MSNBC where she will continue to lie! She knows no other way. Well groomed by the White House squatter’s puppeteers and script writers!!!

  12. This is what Trump said on January 6th and they are trying to prosecute him. Shouldn’t Biden be prosecuted for being late with this statement??

  13. “judges must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety.” What a bold statement, Joe! What a profile in courage! How about a condemnation? How about identifying the mopes who are claiming “credit” for the doxxing? These are thugs trying to intimidate the Supreme Court.

  14. Now that shows the idiocy of Psaki and her cohorts. The law says trying to influence a jury or jurist is against the law. That includes demonstrations, protests, or masturbating in the street, if it’s done to influence the outcome of a trial.

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  16. The firebombing and other violent acts must have caught their attention! It’s amazing that so many of the leftist have survived their illegal acts! If the “right wing extremists” were as “extreme” as “Pres LOL” believes, there would be FEWER lefitsts to carry on!

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