CNN is making a big deal about liberal Democrat “lawmaker” Judy Chu of California becoming a “martyr” for the cause, by being arrested at an abortion rights protest in our Nation’s capitol, on June 30. The real story, the one nobody pays any attention to, is the fact our alleged representatives in congress have no idea how our government actually works. They would rather thumb their nose at the law than see the work of their predecessors enforced. What’s the point of making laws if nobody follows them anyway? Laws like the ones that say blocking an intersection is not a peaceful protest, it’s a riot.
Lawmaker a lawbreaker in disguise
Its understandable that more than 100 furious progressives would go wave their fists in the air in anger with the Supreme Court over losing the guaranteed right to murder their mistakes. None of them learned how government works in school. It’s not the kids’ fault that modern education is focused on identifying the 26 or so new genders and explaining why they need tampon machines in the men’s room.
An alleged lawmaker, on the other hand, should be held fully accountable. They don’t have to agree with each other. Differences of opinion are healthy. What they do need to understand is where they fit into the big government picture.
Any law Judy Chu passes could be totally ignored by whoever holds her seat in congress next. She doesn’t care. She also has no idea about what the function of the Supreme Court is.
Okay, so she’s disappointed in the ruling. The lawmaker should accept the reality that SCOTUS gets the last word. Instead of participating in an unlawful, traffic-blocking riot, she should do the job she’s paid to do. Make a new law to fix the problem. That, our representatives gasp, is too much like work.
“When I first heard Roe was overturned, I immediately thought of who would be most harmed by this decision: a young girl who is a survivor of rape, a woman who cannot afford to travel to another state to access critical care, an expecting mother with an ectopic pregnancy whose life is in danger because she cannot have an abortion.”
Those girls may be harmed, yes. Tough taters. The Supreme Court didn’t say they absolutely can’t have an abortion. All they say is that Uncle Sam needs to stay out of it and leave that question up to the individual states. Any lawmaker who doesn’t like that is free to write up a bill to solve the problem.
The decision was easy
The decision to run down to the protest and get her face plastered across America’s TV screens was easy. The police say the decision to arrest the lawmaker was just as easy. Now, she’ll get a private tutored lesson in America’s criminal justice system.
As soon as the group of insurrectionists “collectively sat down on the corner of Constitution Ave. NE and First St. NE, just a few feet from the Supreme Court and US Capitol grounds,” the war was on. Organizers called that “an act of civil disobedience.” Police gave them fair warning that no, according to the law, “the gathering was illegal.”
The police understand the law a lot more than the lawmaker does. They “arrested 181 people for Crowding, Obstructing or Incommoding (DC Code § 22–1307) for blocking the intersection of Constitution Avenue, NE and First Street, NE.” They even know the verse and chapter.
Some legislator crafted that law and wants to see it followed. The people who elected him want to see it followed. Ms. Chu willingly and intentionally violated that law. She did it because she doesn’t understand what “unconstitutional” means. That, conservatives speculate, is because Democrats think the Constitution itself is dead. It may be on life support but it’s still breathing.
Joe Biden already announced he’ll help kill the filibuster if it will grease something through the Senate. The only problem with that is they weren’t able to round up the support they need for it a few weeks ago, when they wanted to push the mega-pork package through. Chu is already on board with the Women’s Health Protection Act. She knows it has about as much chance of making it through Congress as a snowball has of passing through Hades.
The lawmaker decided that screaming and yelling outside the Supreme Court Building would be more effective. Right about now, she’s really happy that D.C. has a world-renowned “revolving door” justice policy. She might be back on the street in time for tonight’s riot. “Lives are at stake and this fight is far from over,” she defiantly vows.
