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“OUT! DEMONS, OUT!”
On the night of Cinco de Mayo, police placed an eight-foot “nonscalable” fence around the Supreme Court building and reinforced it with concrete barriers. Some of us may remember when the Supreme Court back in 2014 struck down a Massachusetts law mandating a 35-foot buffer zone around women’s health clinics in a unanimous ruling that decided a buffer zone is an infringement on First Amendment rights. This is what happens, of course, when we exercise “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” But if you want to storm the Capitol, loot the House and Senate and try to stop the certification of the Electoral College vote count, you might have to fight your way through some bike racks.
Protesters opposed to a leaked draft majority opinion reversing the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision legalizing abortion 49 years ago turned their focus to the homes of conservative majority Justices, prompting swift bipartisan Senate legislation extending security protection to Justices’ family members. Picking up where an old idea left off: What if we had an exorcism of the US Supreme Court?
Once upon a time, during the war in Vietnam, a growing tribe of activist stoners convinced each other that they should try and end the war by performing an exorcism on the Pentagon in Washington, DC. They already had the streets, so it made sense to…