DeSantis: Blockade of Supreme Court by Pro-Choice Protesters Is an Insurrection

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning and labeled the potential “blockade” of the Supreme Court by pro-choice groups as an “insurrection.”

DeSantis was referring to the publicized plans of  ShutDownDC, a left-wing group which announced it was hosting a “shut down SCOTUS” protest on June 13, with plans to “blockade” the streets surrounding the Supreme Court in light of a potential decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade.

The group announced the protest plans on its website. “On June 13, one of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision days, we plan to blockade the streets around the Supreme Court to rise up for the transformative change that our communities need,” the website states. “Right now our political system is in crisis. Times of crisis can either be opportunities to break through the inertia and win transformational change or they can be opportunities for the establishment to further entrench the status quo.”

There were reports later in the afternoon of rolling street closures that occurred Monday morning around the Supreme Court. There were no arrests, said a D.C. police spokeswoman.

DeSantis said on Fox & Friends that group is “trying to change the outcome of decisions that they are concerned that they don’t like and that is totally antithetical to the rule of law … . That would be considered an insurrection – to stop a court from functioning – and yet they seem to be able to get away with a lot more than if the shoe were on the other foot.”… (Excerpt from The Florida Capital Star)