‘Unruly’ Protesters Hound Justice Kavanaugh From DC Steakhouse

Matthew VadumJuly 9, 2022

Activists targeted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday, driving him out of a popular Washington, D.C. restaurant where he was enjoying an evening meal. The action is apparently part of the “summer of rage” leftists have promised to protest the court’s decisions.

Protesters massed outside Morton’s Steakhouse after learning Trump appointee Kavanaugh was inside, Politico first reported. The activists contacted the eatery’s manager demanding that he be given the boot because of his court rulings. It is unclear how many activists were present.

Some activists urged people “to call the restaurant and denounce its hospitality toward the justice,” The New York Post reported.

For security reasons, Kavanaugh exited the restaurant through a back door.

Morton’s condemned the disruption through a spokesperson: “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.”

Responding to Morton’s statement, Shut Down DC, which has been organizing protests at the home of conservative justices, threatened the steakhouse in a Friday tweet. “No rights for us, no peace for you. Get [expletive] @mortons.”

The group celebrated the disruption in a Twitter post. “We hear Kavanaugh snuck out the back with his security detail. @mortons should be ashamed for welcoming a man who so clearly hates women.”

Escalating Threats

Threats against conservative justices have escalated in recent weeks after the Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that there was a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense and on June 24 that there