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Restaurant blasts pro-abortion protesters who showed up to disturb Kavanaugh's D.C. dinner: 'Void of decency'



Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was forced to make a stealthy exit out the back door of a Washington, D.C., restaurant after leftist protesters chased him down at dinner because of his vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

On Wednesday night, D.C.-area protesters learned that Kavanaugh was having dinner at Morton's Steakhouse in the city's downtown, Politico's Playbook newsletter reported Friday morning.

A left-wing group called ShutDownDC tweeted on July 6 that Kavanaugh had "snuck [sic] out for a swanky DC dinner" and invited local activists to "join him." The protesters showed up at the restaurant, encouraged others to call Morton's and demand management kick Kavanaugh out, and later tweeted that the justice had been forced to exit through the back of the restaurant.

\u201cWe hear Kavanaugh snuck out the back with his security detail. @mortons should be ashamed for welcoming a man who so clearly hates women.\u201d
— ShutDownDC (@ShutDownDC) 1657155197

Politico reported that Kavanaugh did not see nor hear the protesters and ate a full meal at Morton's but left before dessert. The restaurant chain's management issued a furious statement condemning the protests.

“Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protestors while eating dinner at our Morton’s restaurant. Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner. 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.”

ShutDownDC was unapologetic Friday morning. "No rights for us, no peace for you. Get f***ed @mortons," the group tweeted.

While the restaurant was harassed Wednesday, another group of protesters had gathered outside Kavanaugh's private home in Chevy Chase, Md. to continue their abortion rights demonstrations, much to the annoyance of the neighborhood.

Bethesda magazine spoke with some of Kavanaugh's neighbors, who complained to police about the noise, obscenities being shouted, and general disruption to the community.

One woman, who remained anonymous for safety reasons, told the magazine the protesters' actions were inappropriate for a private neighborhood with young children.

“Most of those children are too young to understand what they’re doing and way too young for us to have these crucial conversations with. They are extremely frightened by their actions and no longer feel safe in their own homes,” she said.

The neighbor also complained that Montgomery County officials were incorrectly characterizing the protests as "peaceful."

"They are far from. It’s actually embarrassing that anyone would categorize them as such,” she said. “Ask anyone on our street that lives here or has been here when they’re happening and they will tell you the same. It’s horrendous and insane that this is allowed to happen at our private homes.”

Another neighbor, Florence Knauf, said that while she doesn't agree with Kavanaugh, it would be better for the protesters to take their demonstrations to a public place like the U.S. Supreme Court building.

“Brett Kavanaugh and I don’t agree with each other very much, but I actually think that doing this outside of a person’s house is hard,” Knauf said. "You have a Supreme Court [building] that is public and is totally a place where you can, like, deal with your First Amendment rights. And going to someone’s house is pretty scary.”

Montgomery County officials have said the protesters are abiding by local regulations that limit protests in front of residences.

Democratic senator suggests FBI conducted 'fake' background check on Brett Kavanaugh — demands DOJ review



A Democratic lawmaker suggested the FBI conducted a "fake" background check on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and demanded that President Joe Biden's newly appointed attorney general conduct a review of the bureau's work.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to newly confirmed Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding "proper oversight" over several matters related to the Department ofJustice, including the FBI's 2018 investigation into the unsubstantiated and uncorroborated allegations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh, who was then President Donald Trump's nominee to fill a seat on the Supreme Court vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement.

Whitehouse asked Garland to review "what appears to have been a politically-constrained and perhaps fake FBI investigation into alleged misconduct by now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh."

During Kavanaugh's confirmation process, Christine Blasey Ford came forward to accuse him of a sexual assault that she alleged occurred in the mid-1980s. She testified about her allegations to the U.S. Senate but was unable to provide a consistent account of what allegedly happened, had no memory of key details that could corroborate her account, and made several other inconsistent statements, failing to substantiate her claims.

Another woman, Judy Munri-Leighton, made a false allegation that Kavanaugh raped her and latter admitted she had never met him. A third woman, Julie Swetnick, made the outrageous claim that Kavanaugh participated in a "train" of boys lined up to rape women at house parties, later contradicted her sworn testimony, and was referred to the Department of Justice by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for possible criminal investigation for false statements to Congress.

Kavanaugh vehemently denied all of the allegations.

At the insistence of Senate Democrats, the FBI conducted a background investigation into Kavanaugh and reviewed the allegations of sexual misconduct leveled against him. They found "no corroboration of the allegations."

But Whitehouse and other Democrats accused President Donald Trump of limiting the FBI's investigation, though FBI Director Christopher Wray would later testify to Congress that the FBI completed its probe according to "standard process."

In his letter to Garland, Whitehouse asserted that the FBI ignored multiple witnesses who claimed to have evidence against Kavanaugh to share with investigators. He said their cases were never assigned to an agent and that no evidence was gathered by the FBI.

"This was unique behavior in my experience, as the Bureau is usually amenable to information and evidence; but in this matter the shutters were closed, the drawbridge drawn up, and there was no point of entry by which members of the public or Congress could provide information to the FBI," Whitehouse said.

He also claimed that although the FBI set up a "tip line" for additional allegations and that the FBI received a "stack of information" through the tip line, senators "received no explanation of how, or whether, those allegations were processed and evaluated."

"This 'tip line' appears to have operated more like a garbage chute, with everything that came down the chute consigned without review to the figurative dumpster," Whitehouse asserted.

Whitehouse also criticized Director Wray for giving unsatisfactory answers to and "stonewalling" congressional inquiries.

"If standard procedures were violated, and the Bureau conducted a fake investigation rather than a sincere, thorough and professional one, that in my view merits congressional oversight to understand how, why, and at whose behest and with whose knowledge or connivance, this was done," Whitehouse wrote to Garland.

Justice Kavanaugh accused of helping Trump 'steal the election' after SCOTUS rejects Wisconsin mail-in ballot extension



Justice Brett Kavanaugh is being accused of paving the way for President Donald Trump to "steal the election" after the Supreme Court on Monday rejected an effort by Wisconsin Democrats to have mail-in absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day counted even if they arrive after the election.

In a 5-3 decision, the court ruled that absentee ballots in Wisconsin could only be counted if they were in the possession of election clerks by 8 p.m. on Nov. 3. State Democrats attempted to have the deadline for counting absentee ballots extended a full six days after Election Day, CNBC reports. They argued the extension was necessary due to the surge in mail-in voting caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Last month, District Court Judge William Conley agreed with the Democrats' arguments, ordering the deadline to be extended. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Conley's decision in October and Democrats appealed the case to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court ruled against the Democrats. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for himself and joined in part by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said that the Constitution gives elected legislators the power to set election rules and that judges cannot overstep the separation of powers when the Legislature fails to act.

"Legislators can be held accountable by the people for the rules they write or fail to write; typically, judges cannot," Gorsuch wrote. "Legislatures make policy and bring to bear the collective wisdom of the whole people when they do, while courts dispense the judgment of only a single person or a handful."

In his concurring opinion, Kavanaugh said that while he understands the concerns over COVID-19, "you need deadlines to hold elections — there is just no wishing away or getting around that fundamental point. And Wisconsin's deadline is the same as that in 30 other States and is a reasonable deadline given all the circumstances."

"Moving a deadline would not prevent ballots from arriving after the newly minted deadline any more than moving first base would mean no more close plays," he added.

Kavanaugh's concurring opinion has been cited by critics on the left as evidence he wants to help Trump "steal the election" by discounting mail-in votes.

"Brett Kavanaugh Lays Out a Plan to Help Trump Steal the Election" reads one headline at Mother Jones, while "Brett Kavanaugh Signals He's Open to Stealing the Election for Trump" is a piece by Mark Joseph Stern for Slate. These articles accuse Kavanaugh's "frankly terrifying" opinion (Stern's words) of echoing Trump's rhetoric opposing mail-in voting in one passage wherein Kavanaugh defends states that have statutes similar to a Wisconsin law that disqualifies ballots received after Election Day:

Those States want to avoid the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the results of an election. And those States also want to be able to definitively announce the results of the election on election night, or as soon as possible thereafter.

"It is genuinely alarming that the justice cast these aspersions on late-arriving ballots," Stern writes.

Another area of Kavanaugh's opinion that's under attack is a footnote where he positively cites Chief Justice William Rehnquist's opinion in Bush v. Gore on why federal courts should step in to review state court interpretations of state election laws that affect federal elections, such as presidential election.

"Whatever the reasons behind Kavanaugh's performance on Monday, he has given the nation another legitimate reason to fear that this election may end with a Bush v. Gore–like disaster for American democracy, but even worse than the original," he concludes.

A CNN report on Kavanaugh's opinion shares a similar premise with the headline "Brett Kavanaugh foreshadows how Supreme Court could disrupt vote counting," suggesting that Wisconsin following state election law would disrupt the election. Another article for USA Today also suggests Kavanaugh is "echoing Trump."

President Trump has frequently criticized mail-in voting, predicting that fully counting votes could take months after the election and suggesting "mail ballots are very dangerous for this country because of cheaters. They go collect them. They are fraudulent in many cases. They have to vote. They should have voter ID, by the way."