U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark stated they ended up getting arrested outdoors the Supreme Court by Capitol Police after an abortion protest on Tuesday.
“Today, Congresswoman Pressley joined her colleagues and grassroots advocates for a non-violent civil disobedience to protest the Supreme Court’s cruel and callous decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and strip away abortion rights for everyone who calls America home,” stated Pressley spokesman Ricardo Sanchez in a press release that her workplace rapidly blasted out. “She, along with several of her colleagues, was arrested as part of the peaceful demonstration and is currently in custody of the U.S. Capitol Police. We will share more information as soon as it becomes available.”
Clark, a Melrose congresswoman who’s the fourth rating Democrat within the House, additionally tweeted that she’d been arrested. She represents the Massachusetts fifth Congressional District.
“That’s what we call good trouble,” Clark’s workplace tweeted in a reference to the well-known quote from civil-rights icon and late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
Pressley, a Democrat from Hyde Park, represents about two-thirds of Boston, plus some surrounding areas together with Randolph, Everett and Somerville.
The former Boston City Councilor who now represents the Massachusetts seventh Congressional District was protesting the latest Supreme Court Dobbs choice to overturn the Roe v. Wade verdict that for the earlier 5 many years had maintained a constitutional proper to abortion.
Pressley, a member of the “Squad” of left-wing members of Congress, was becoming a member of into the periodic protests which have raged outdoors of SCOTUS in Washington, D.C.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”