House Republicans are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland to charge demonstrators over protesting outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices who supported a draft opinion striking down legal protections for abortion.
Failure to do so is “a shameless and implicit endorsement of mob rule in America,” 48 members of Congress said in an open letter (pdf) to the attorney general on May 11, urging him to punish what they called “mobs” in accordance with the law.
