WASHINGTON –
Protesters against the U.S. Supreme Court’s determination overturning abortion rights briefly interrupted arguments at the court docket Wednesday and urged ladies to vote in subsequent week’s elections.
It was the primary courtroom disruption for the reason that court docket’s determination in June that stripped away ladies’s constitutional protections for abortion after almost a half-century underneath Roe v. Wade.
Three individuals stood up within the courtroom within the first jiffy of Wednesday’s session to denounce the abortion ruling, which got here in a case from Mississippi, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“Our proper to decide on is not going to be taken away,” one protester mentioned. “Women, vote for our proper to decide on.”
The justices didn’t seem to react to the disruption. The protesters didn’t resist when police led them away.
The court docket had no fast info on arrests.
The justices heard arguments Wednesday in a case involving reporting necessities underneath the Bank Secrecy Act. After a 19-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, the courtroom was reopened to the general public in October.
The final time Supreme Court arguments had been interrupted was in 2015 when opponents of rulings that lifted limits on cash in political campaigns voiced their protest and even managed to get a digicam previous court docket safety.
Seven individuals had been arrested within the January 2015 protest that occurred on the fifth anniversary of the court docket’s Citizen United ruling that freed firms and labor unions to spend as a lot as they need on elections for Congress and president.