<![CDATA[17 Members of Congress Arrested Outside Supreme Court]]> https://usagag.com/2022/07/20/17-members-of-congress-arrested-outside-supreme-court/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://usagag.com 17 Members of Congress Arrested Outside Supreme Court Tuesday was the day of the protest, and several lawmakers were there. Some of them were even arrested.

A video that has gone viral shows an officer leading a lawmaker from New York out of the Supreme Court while a woman shouts, "Abortion rights are under attack!" Ocasio-Cortez walks with her hands behind her back, which makes it look like she is handcuffed. She then puts her hand in the air to show that there are no handcuffs.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, is arrested outside the US Supreme Court during a protest of the court overturning Roe v. Wade in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The stunt generated a wave of mockery across social media.

“That’s because she’s a performer, not a Congresswoman…” one user wrote.

One user called her a fake, and another said, "Almost as good as her fake crying at that random fence in Arizona."

Authorities say that 16 U.S. lawmakers were actually arrested. Ocasio-Cortez shared a tweet from Axios reporter Andrew Solender, who said that Ocasio-Cortez was among those arrested.

Other people were, too.

“This is Congresswoman Adams’ staff. She was just arrested protesting for abortion rights and reproductive justice at the Supreme Court. More information as it develops,” the staff for Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC) posted to her Twitter account on Tuesday:

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was reportedly arrested as well. This news coincides with Capitol Police actively warning demonstrators that arrests would be made if they continued to block traffic:

Rep. Ilhan Omar, (D-Minn.), is escorted away from a sit-in outside of the Supreme Court with members of Congress to protest the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/)

“Demonstrators are starting to block First Street, NE. It is against the law to block traffic, so officers are going to give our standard three warnings before they start making arrests,” Capitol Police posted to social media around 1:18 p.m. Eastern, later adding that “some of the demonstrators are refusing to get out of the street, so we are starting to make arrests”:

According to an update, police made 34 arrests “for Crowding, Obstructing or Incommoding (DC Code § 22–1307).” Almost half of those arrests were members of Congress:

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) is detained by U.S. Capitol Police Officers after participating in a sit-in with activists from the Center for Popular Democracy Action (CPDA) in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on July 19, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
UNITED STATES – JULY 19: Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., attends a sit-it outside of the Supreme Court with members of Congress to protest the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/)

The protest comes weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, sending rules and restrictions on abortions back to the states.

The Capitol Police later issued a correction:

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