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Jen Psaki Brazenly Lies to Thinker’s Daniel Schmidt, Denying She Supported Unlawful Protests Outside Justices’ Homes

Aidan GriffinbyAidan Griffin
May 23, 2022
in News, SCOTUS
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Jen Psaki Brazenly Lies to Thinker’s Daniel Schmidt, Denying She Supported Unlawful Protests Outside Justices’ Homes
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During an event hosted by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP), the Chicago Thinker‘s Daniel Schmidt pressed former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on her support for unlawful protests outside Supreme Court justices’ homes following the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.

Jen Psaki brazenly lies to @UChicago student journalist, @RealDSchmidt, denying she encouraged anti-lifers to illegally protest outside Supreme Court justices’ homes to influence SCOTUS abortion decision: pic.twitter.com/6mx3Th9kwZ

— The Chicago Thinker (@ThinkerChicago) May 19, 2022

These protests occurred after the pro-abortion outfit “Ruth Sent Us” publicized the supposed home addresses of six Supreme Court justices and announced a “walk-by” of the homes. Psaki refused to condemn the doxxing or calls for protests outside of the judges’ homes, saying that “there’s a lot of passion, a lot of fear, a lot of sadness from many, many people across this country.”

Days later, pro-abortion activists rallied outside the justices’ private residences. Some notable spectacles included protesters chanting “we will not go back” outside of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home and women wearing outfits from Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale outside of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home. The protests allegedly forced Justice Alito to move to an undisclosed location. 

Psaki explicitly endorsed these protests, stating, “I know that there’s an outrage right now … about protests that have been peaceful to date, and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges’ homes.”

According to 18 U.S. Code § 1507, it is illegal to protest outside of a judge’s home “with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge.”

At the IOP event, Schmidt repeated to Psaki her endorsement of the unlawful protests. Psaki interrupted Schmidt after quoting her saying that “we certainly continue to encourage [people protest] outside of judges’ homes,” claiming that she “never said that.”

“I said peacefully,” Psaki interjected, later adding that she “never encouraged anyone to protest.”

Schmidt continued to press Psaki, asking her if she regrets encouraging people to illegally protest outside of justices’ homes. “Even if it is peaceful, it still is a federal crime,” Schmidt clarified.

In her response, Psaki asserted that “facts matter and facts are important,” and that she doesn’t “think it’s the role of the government to tell people where they can or cannot peacefully protest.” She did not address the unlawful nature of the protests outside judges’ homes which she endorsed.

Tags: Daniel SchmidtDobbsIOPJen PsakiProtestsRoeRoe v. WadeThinkerUChicago
Aidan Griffin

Aidan Griffin

Aidan Griffin is a Senior Editor for the Chicago Thinker. As a third-year at UChicago, he is likely to major in Mathematics and Economics. In his free time, he enjoys competition math, playing and following in almost any sport in existence (especially football and tennis), analyzing the politics and history of former colonies of the British Empire around the world and East Asia, studying the business cycle, and analyzing opinion polls near an election.

Comments 3

  1. ajdhjwisuehwjs says:
    9 months ago

    Honestly I think this is a case of poor wording and bad communication on her part. It’s pretty likely that when she said “we encourage that outside of judges homes,” what she meant to convey was that “we encourage people to continue protesting, outside of (i.e. other than/not near) judges’ homes.” She’d have to be pretty dumb to just deny that she said something in the public record, and I find it far more likely that she interpreted it differently than you and just didn’t realize. It comes off as pretty dishonest for you to claim that she’s “brazenly lying” and not just mistaken.

  2. jaye els says:
    8 months ago

    I say Conservatives need to stop whining that Woke Lib Leftists are not playing fair, that the media is biased (yeah duhh) and Antifa, BLM, LGBT, trans something and abortion extremists are getting away with harassment, protests that are really borderline riots, terrorism.

    These are cult Marxist, Communists, anarchists – when have these types ever played fair – certainly not in my Grandfather’s Russia 100 years ago (my grandfather fought in the White Army against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War and became a professor of Sanskrit here at U Chicago.

    We need to fight fire with fire – we need to do protests, contest the street and doxing works. I’ve been doxed and I’ve doxed – it’s a very effective tactic.

    In contrast Conservative tactics of always being nice, trying to use reason, get people to read free market economics books – that doesn’t work.

  3. Roger Holtzman says:
    8 months ago

    Backward reels the mind! When a communications professional, a supposedly educated woman, cannot comprehend the meaning of her words it is a textbook case of the Peter Principle.

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